TranScript

Traduzione e scrittura nel Medioevo europeo

Una breve storia del ‘cadavere’: caduti latini, corpi morti romanzi e una postilla dantesca

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Abstract

The designations of death, dying, and the dead have been extensively studied, especially since they are often subject to linguistic taboo and are therefore named through euphemisms and dysphemisms. This contribution will reconstruct the history of the lexical type cadaver, in parallel with corpus (mortuum), from ancient Latin to modern Romance languages: the ‘X-phemic’ model will be discussed, but the study will adopt a semasiological perspective.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 31 Agosto 2023 | Accettato: 15 Ottobre 2023 | Pubblicato 20 Dicembre 2023 | Lingua: it

Keywords LexicologyCorpo mortoCorpseRomance LinguisticsDante Alighieri