This way, if someone who isn’t a native speaker wants to find out what a specific term is called in English, she can query the equivalent in any of these languages, and still get the desired results. The lexicon uses English as a lingua franca, but offers translations of the terms (not of the definitions) in French, German, Italian, and sometimes Latin. It is a wiki based website with a controlled set of contributors who work together to write definitions of the most important concepts in the field. He was the project’s editor in chief until May 2015, when he passed the title on to Caroline Macé and Philipp Roelli.
It was initiated by Odd Einar Haugen as a project of the Studia Stemmatologica network. The Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum (PLS) is an English language lexicon that focusses on a specific subdiscipline in Textual Scholarship: stemmatology. The Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum’s definition of ‘document’. For each of these projects I’ll provide a little background, and discuss the way in which they try to facilitate a more diverse discussion of Textual Criticism. In this blog post, I would like to take a closer look at four recent digital lexica in the field, that each try to overcome these language barriers in their own way: the English ‘Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum’, the Finnish ‘Tekstuaalitieteiden Sanasto’ (now also part of the ‘Bank of Finnish Terminology’), the French/Arabic ‘Glossaires Codicologiques’, and the multilingual ‘Lexicon of Scholarly Editing’. The result of this rapprochement is that rather than focussing on the differences between their respective traditions, it is now generally accepted that they each provide a different, but equally valuable perspective on how the texts of literary works could be edited, based on the historical evidence of textual transmission.Ī good example of the increasing importance of this awareness of the diversity of traditions in the field can be found in the rise of a number of lexicographical projects that were devised to deal with this issue.
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German Editionswissenschaft, Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, French critique génétique, and Italian Filologia d’autore are but a few examples.īut in the last decades the field has witnessed a rapprochement of different editorial theories and practices, transforming this series of individual, monolingual discussions into a larger, multilingual one.
Lexicographical Approaches to Encompassing a Multilingual Research Field.Īlthough Textual Criticism is an international discipline concerned with the curation, analysis, and edition of historical documents written in any language, the field has primarily given rise to a number of distinct culture-dependent editorial traditions of textual scholarship.
dissertation, which was part of the ERC project CUTS (Creative Undoing and Textual Scholarship) at the University of Antwerp. He developed the Lexicon of Scholarly Editing as an appendix to his Ph.D. Wout Dillen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Borås, Sweden, where his work is part of the DiXiT Marie Curie Initial Training Network. Post by Wout Dillen, guest author for FonteGaia.
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