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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter addresses orthographic variation in Simonas Daukantas’s Lithuanian manuscript ‘Istorija žemaitiška’ (‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’, 1831–4) from diachronic, diaphasic, diaprecise and aesthetic perspectives, and discusses the impact of the author’s agency and text materiality on the orthographic features of the book. The study demonstrates how manuscripts may serve as spaces for linguistic experimentation, which may result in higher linguistic heterogeneity. The chapter also demonstrates that the palpability – materiality – of the manuscript may accrue its own symbolic ideological value, and diminishes the importance of the purely linguistic content of the manuscript. New evidence is provided from non-dominant European language contexts on how the writing medium constrains orthographic preferences (heterogeneity versus uniformity) of the text and how the political and ideological message of the text could suppress the importance of linguistic uniformity.
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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800 , pp. 124 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020