Political Language in the Middle Ages

Political Language in the Middle Ages

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Project

Project

By taking up an historical approach to discourse and focusing on the linguistic composition of texts, this Leibniz project aims to contribute to and broaden the insights gained from the history of political ideas. Computer-assisted methods of textual analysis will be developed and tested, with the Bielefeld tradition of historical semantics informing this development. The individual projects will examine central aspects of the use of political language, and will take up a diachronic perspective from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages.


     

Individual projects

Individual projects

The project is operationalised in individual research projects, which analyse specific topics in the reseach field of political language.

Workshops and Lectures

Workshops and Lectures

The project includes different Workshops and Lectures about political Language in the Middle Ages and historical Sematics as a transdisciplinary theory and technic as well as computational based technics in the Digital Humanities. In this context, the research results of the individual projects were also discussed frequently.

HSCM

HSCM

HSCM (Historical Semantics Corpus Management) is an application for corpus-based historical semantics research; it is being developed for the Leibniz Project.
Historical semantics examines changes in meaning as a measure of the transformation of social systems reflected in the historical language use of a particular time and/or group. It analyzes the linguistic means of reinforcing and contending for meaning, as well as the stabilization, marginalization, and transformation of these means. Such research necessitates an empirical basis consisting of a diachronic corpus of texts (such as the Patrologia Latina, which comprises Latin texts over a period of one thousand years), which enables researchers to trace and compare the language use of different generations of actors.