Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo

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Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo

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Universidad de Murcia. Departamento de Filología Inglesa

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New verse translations of Old English poetry into Spanish: a critical review of Bernardo Santano Moreno, ed. and trans. and Fernando Cid Lucas, ed. 2019. Beowulf. Madrid: Cátedra. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-84-376-3949-9 and Miguel Ángel Gomes Gargamala, ed. and trans. 2019. Elegías anglosajonas. Madrid: La Oficina de Arte y Ediciones. 125 pp. ISBN: 978-84-949714-4-0.
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2020-06) Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo; Filología Inglesa
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Usage and precept in eighteenth-century English object-clause complementisers
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-11-07) Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo; Calle Martín, Javier; Filología Inglesa; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
This paper discusses the use of zero and that as connectors for object clauses in eighteenth-century English. Previous approaches have shown that the use of zero increased in late Middle English and became well-established in the second half of the sixteenth century, especially in speech-based text-types. Our own research, based on the evidence of The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, has shown that in the mid-seventeenth century zero was well beyond the mid-range stage of lexical diffusion (73%) with the five high frequency verbs to know, to think, to say, to tell and to hope. Chronologically, it has been shown that progress of the zero innovation was thwarted in the eighteenth century, which has been attributed to the effect of prescriptivism. In this paper, we intend to throw light on this issue by tracking the courses of zero and that during the eighteenth century in both usage and precept. With this purpose we rely on two sources of information. On the one hand, a precept corpus containing a selection of grammars published in Britain in 1681–1800. Usage, on the other, has been surveyed in light of the evidence of The Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension Sampler. Our aim is to assess the existence of a correlation between usage and precept in the expression of object clauses in this period with the following objectives: i) to analyse the use and distribution of zero and that clauses among grammarians; ii) to evaluate the incidence of the phenomenon in correspondence, as an input mirroring the vernacular; and iii) to assess the role of the grammarians’ statements in the propagation of the marked conjunction over the period.
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Multilingualism and language contact in the Cely Letters
(De Gruyter Brill, 2021-06-19) Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo; Filología Inglesa; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
The Cely Letters is a well-known collection of correspondence exchanged by members of this London family of wool merchants and their associates between 1472 and 1488. A substantial part of the corpus was written and received by factors based in Calais, which had been an English outpost in France since 1346 and was strategically connected to the wool marts of the Low Countries. The great majority of the letters are monolingual English texts, thus attesting to the widespread use of the vernacular in personal correspondence by the late fifteenth century. Nevertheless, behind the monolingual English surface, traces of multilingualism are revealed. In this paper, I intend to analyse this issue with a twofold purpose. In the first place, attention will be paid to the multilingual background of the letters, considering both the persistent use of French in late medieval England and the specificity of the business transactions carried out at Calais and the marts, where language contact must have been the norm. In the second place, different textual reflections of such contact in the letters are examined and classified, both as regards the generic conventions of letter writing and as part of the multilingual business context where they were produced and received.
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La percepción del espacio geográfico en la Inglaterra altomedieval: paisajes imaginarios y domésticos en el manuscrito Cotton Tiberius B.V/1
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2025-02-25) Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo; Filología Inglesa; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
Este trabajo explora la percepción y sistematización del espacio geográfico en la Inglaterra anglosajona, especialmente en el siglo xi, a partir del análisis de algunos textos clave procedentes del manuscrito Cotton Tiberius B.v/1, de la Biblioteca Británica de Londres. Se trata de una colección miscelánea con algunos documentos de interés geográfico, entre los que destacan versiones en latín e inglés antiguo de The Wonders of the East (ff. 78v-87v) y un mappa mundi (f. 56v). El primer texto permite profundizar en la percepción de los espacios remotos, principalmente a partir de la descripción de las criaturas maravillosas (mirabilia) y legendarias que habitan en ellos. The Wonders of the East incluye también referencias a lugares concretos con resonancias exóticas, muchos de ellos inventados, y describe construcciones y paisajes insólitos y lujosos. Por su parte, el mappa mundi se centra en el mundo conocido (la ecúmene), cuyos accidentes y ciudades son profusamente etiquetados; de este modo se puede percibir de primera mano el conocimiento geográfico en la Inglaterra del siglo xi. En este contexto, resulta llamativa la relevancia que adquieren en el mapa la Germania septentrional, Escandinavia y, especialmente, Gran Bretaña e Irlanda. ----------------
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Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters
(Walter de Gruyter, 2020-09-07) Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo; Filología Inglesa; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
The analytical construct known as community of practice—a group of people linked by the pursuit of a joint enterprise and sharing a repertoire of resources with this purpose—is extensively used in present-day sociolinguistic research on the diffusion of variation in connection with identity and social meaning construction and as part of a common, locally-constructed style. Communities of practice are also crucial in the diffusion of standard or non-standard practices and I believe that this tenet—which certainly holds for the present—could also be extended to the past, adding a new dimension to the historical study of standardisation. In this paper, I intend to reconstruct one fifteenth-century community of practice on the evidence afforded by the late Middle English collection of correspondence known as the Stonor letters. I will analyse the linguistic resources that members of this community of practice shared and I will particularly study spelling focusing as shown in reduced frequencies of spelling variants in their letters when compared to orthography in the letters issued by non-members. I believe that this perspective can help understand historical proto-standardisation in a new light, associating it to processes of identity construction.