The article proposes a new interpretation of a hitherto relatively overlooked passage from the recently discovered Gothic fragmentfrom Bologna, or Gothica Bononiensia (2r, 15-17), and in particular oftheexpressionfaurasuggwanliu & thorn;, a hapaxlegomenon that does not seem to have found a satisfactory rendering yet. Various possible ways of analyzing the expression are illustrated and, on the basis of what appears to be the most likely one, a translation of the pages'content is proposed.
This study explores two individual variables, language aptitudes and beliefs, before, during and after a short intercomprehension experience through songs in two Germanic languages, German and Dutch, with baccalaureate secondary school students, aged 16 and 17, attending a high school in Badalona, a city near Barcelona. A mixed-method methodology with a pre-post design was used to collect data, including one pre-test (n=44) and one post-test (n=46), as well as participants' declarative data during the Germanic intercomprehension (ICG) experience with songs. After carrying out the ICG activity, the results reveal that participants have a slightly better ability to identify short-written fragments in the two target Germanic languages. In addition, there has been a change in students'beliefs regarding their image as language learners. Participants also expressed a more favourable attitude towards exploring new languages and relying on prior linguistic knowledge after the ICG experience. These descriptive findings suggest promising avenues for further research on cognitive and affective variables in the scarcely explored field of intercomprehension.
This contribution discusses the ways in which motion verbs create theological and narrative perspectives of the Last Judgment, as expressed in Old High German, Old English, and Old Saxon eschatological texts. It attempts to demonstrate that linguistic choices reflect conceptions of time, perspectives, and participation in the event by analyzing their use and metaphorical functions. These verbs reveal shifting viewpoints -from collective expectation to individual encounter- that bring forth the experiential dimension of eschatological discourse.
This article introduces CoDIAC (Corpus Diacronico dell'Italiano per l'Analisi dei Connettivi), a diachronic corpus for studying Italian connectives. Spanning the 13th to the 20th century, it comprises 108 texts totalling similar to 3.5 million words and features comparable word counts across centuries, genres, and individual texts. A case study on the adversative connective invece 'instead' and its subordinating variant invece di vertical bar che 'instead of'demonstrates its practical application.
This study analyses the phenomenon ofmosaic skulls that have appeared inA Coru & ntilde;a since 2021 as an expression of open-source anonymous street art. Drawing on Mediated Discourse Analysis (Scollon, 2001) and Nexus Analysis (Scollon & Wong Scollon, 2004), the proliferation of these skulls is interpreted as a nexus of offlineonline practices-subversive, self-managed, and participatory-that reconfigure the urban landscape and construct a collective identity around the local myth ofXeri & oacute;n.
