- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
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- (p.287) ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Source:
- Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
- Author(s):
D. R. Langslow
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses the characteristics of technical prose in some modern languages as well as in Latin. It specifically aims to question the assertion that Latin technical languages are nothing more than sets of technical terms, and to touch on one or two aspects of Latin technical prose in antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Throughout, the focus is mainly on linguistic features other than the terminology, although part of the argument is that vocabulary is inseparably intertwined with syntax and style. The chapter starts with the question of the definition of technical languages and the scope of their study, and then provides a contention that Latin technical languages are not simply sets of lexical items.
Keywords: Latin languages, Latin technical prose, Middle Ages, antiquity, syntax, style
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
