Multilingualism and the Emergence of a New Written Language as a Transformation of Discourse Traditions

Project Leader: Vladislav Knoll
Team Members: Constanța Burlacu, PhD, Mgr. Jiří Dynda, Ph.D., Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Džunková, kand. filol. nauk, doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Kulhánková, Ph.D., ThLic. Tomáš Mikulka, Ph.D.
Past Members: PhDr. František Čajka, Ph.D.

Poskytovatel
  • AV ČR
Realizace –

A project of the Lumina quaeruntur Fellowship provided by the Czech Academy of Sciences for the years 2025–2029. The project aims to theoretically describe and analyse the mechanisms behind the emergence of new written languages or language varieties within the multilingual contexts of different European cultural traditions during the medieval and early modern periods. The research will compare philological methodologies across traditions. The starting methodological basis is the theory of discourse traditions, which assumes that no written tradition emerges ex nihilo (Koch 1997), but appears as a transformation of a written tradition in contact or as a blend of a vernacular and a contact culture.

Bibliography

  • Dynda, Jiří. 2025. Using the Emic – Etic Distinction to Understand the Medieval Christian Interpretations of Slavic Pagan Religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Advance Papers (2025): 1 – 27. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10160.
  • Knoll, Vladislav. 2025. The Birth of a New Lan­gu­age – Then and Now. In: EGEY, Emese, PUSZTAY, János, eds. The Formation of Literary Standards in the Languages of the Amber Road Region. Badacsony, Sárospatak: Tokaj-Hegyalja Egyetem, 2025, s. 9 – 33. Báthory téka. Borostyánkőút Bernsteinstrasse – Amber Road, 1. ISBN 978 – 615‑5589 – 47‑8.
  • Knoll, Vladislav. 2025. Multilingualism in the Cyrillic Manuscripts and Early Prints. In: Cyrillic Manuscripts. From Medieval to Digital, edited by Vyacheslav Lytvynenko et al. New York: Peter Lang, 2025, 37 – 62.
  • Džunková, Katarína. 2025. „Pravoslávna misionárska lingvistika v Ruskom impériu (špecifiká a problémy žánru).” Slavia 94/​1 – 2: 108 – 129.
  • Knoll, Vladislav. 2025. „Early Romanian Cyrillic in the Context of Church Slavonic Spelling.” In: Cyrillic Manuscripts. Scripts and Language, Scribes and Collections, edited by Antoaneta Granberg et al. New York: Peter Lang, 27 – 56.

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