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ISBN: 9789027290137 9789027248978 9027248974 902729013X 1282105590 9781282105591 6612105593 9786612105593 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam, NL John Benjamins Pub. Co.
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This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of diachronic material in the form of letters, court cases, ghost stories, etc. The analysis is embedded into a theoretical framework of contact linguistics (contact dialectology and pidgin/creole linguistics) and builds upon the social and sociodemographic development of the community. The aims of this book are to trace the origins and evolution of the variety, to pinpoint the forms of English it affiliates with today and the inputs it derived from historically and to investigate whether local contact scenarios have led to the formation of regionally distinctive varieties across the island. Insights from St Helenian English thus challenge us to rethink principles of classification that are applied to determine the status of post-colonial varieties of English.
E-books --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Social aspects --- Dialects --- Saint Helena --- St. Helena --- Saint Helena (Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha) --- St. Helena (Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha) --- Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha --- Languages.
ISSN: 09208607 ISBN: 9004094350 9004246762 9789004094352 9789004246768 Year: 1992 Volume: 27 Publisher: Leiden ;New York E.J. Brill
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This study on Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, is divided into two parts. The purpose of the first part is to ascertain the facts of Helena's life on the basis of reliable historical sources. The second part deals with the legends concerning the discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem by Helena. Fact and fiction, which are so often confused in the secondary literature, are carefully distinguished. The first part deals with subjects like Helena's life before the reign of Constantine, her residences in Trier and Rome, her conversion, her position at the court of Constantine, and her pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The second part investigates the origin, development and function of the legends of the discovery of the True Cross, which were developed in the 4th and 5th centuries: the Helena legend, the (Syriac) Protonike legend and the Judas Cyriacus legend. An appendix deals with the portraits of Helena.
Holy Cross --- Sainte Croix --- Legends --- Légendes --- Helena, --- Hélène, sainte (255-330) --- 7741 --- Helena --- -Cross --- Feast of the Cross --- Helena Saint --- Legends. --- -Legends --- Légendes --- Flavia Julia Helena, --- Helen, --- Елена, --- Elena, --- Hélène, --- Holy Cross - Legends --- Hélène, 255-330
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