LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY

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LANGUAGE, POWER AND AUTHORITY

• LECTURE 4
• ALAIN CHARTIER,
• LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF

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Family Tree
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Hundred Years War

• 1337 Beginning of war
• 1340 Battle of Sluys
• 1346 Battle of Crecy
• 1356 Battle of Poitiers
• 1415 Battle of Agincourt

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Bourgeois de Paris

• Jour et nuit crioient hommes, femmes, petits
• enfants Helas, je meurs de froit! et lautre
• Je meurs de fain.

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Bourgeois de Paris

• En ce temps estoient les loups si affames quils
  desterroient a leurs pattes les corps des gens
  car partout ou on alloit, on trouvoit des morts
  et aux champs et aux villes, de la grant povrete,
  du cher temps et de la famine quils souffroient,
  pour la maudite guerre qui tousjours croissoit de
  jour en jour.

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Latin loan-words

• Somptueusement lt Lat. sumptuosus, 14th c.
• Habitacions lt Lat. habitatio, c. 1350
• Negligence lt Lat. negligentia, c. 1250
• Refection lt Lat. refectio, c. 1410
• Edifice lt Lat. aedificium, c. 1250

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LEXICON VOCABULARY
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Etymologically correct forms
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HIGH STATUS

• Used for
• Religion
• Education
• Law and Administration
• Literature

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LATINATE VOCABULARY

• SEIGNEURIEUX EDIFICE
• V.
• MAISON ROYALE

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LATINATE VOCABULARY

• 1408 1250
• SEIGNEURIEUX EDIFICE
• V.
• MAISON ROYALE

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LINGUISTIC VOCABULARY

• DOUBLET
• PLEONASM

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DOUBLETS

• Entailleures, paintures, armoeries et menueries
• Desmentoit et decrevoit
• Plaintif et langoureux

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NON-ETYMOLOGICAL LETTERS

• Chartier Latin etymons
• Haultes altus
• Default defallere
• Dessoubz desubtus
• Daulphins dalfinus
• Principaulx principalis

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CRITICAL VOCABULARY

• PARATAXIS V. HYPOTAXIS

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CRITICAL VOCABULARY

• PARATAXIS V. HYPOTAXIS
• SIMPLE COMPLEX
• DECLARATIVE SENTENCES
• SENTENCES

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PARATACTIC SENTENCE

• I got up early, I went to work, I had a report
  to write.

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HYPOTACTIC SENTENCE

• I got up early in order to go to work, because I
  had a report to write

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HIGH-STATUS LANGUAGE

• ACCEPTANCE
• CODIFICATION
• ELABORATION

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HIGH-STATUS LANGUAGE

• WHAT WE SHALL NOW BE SEEING, IN
• THE RENAISSANCE AND LATER, IS
• CODIFICATION
• ELABORATION