Papers Prof. Dr. Oliver M. Traxel

Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap
Universitetet i Stavanger

Prof. Dr. Oliver M. Traxel
e-mail: oliver.traxel(at)uis.no

Room: HG N-227
Telephone: 5183 2422

Papers:

2022: 'Closing and Outlook', Symposium Old Sources - New Creations: Modern Takes on Past English Language Stages, Stavanger (information here).
2022: 'Opening', Symposium Old Sources - New Creations: Modern Takes on Past English Language Stages, Stavanger (information here).
2021: 'The Spelling of Conlangs: Fictional Languages and Their Orthographic Representation', Spelling, Writing and Identity, 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities, Stavanger.
2021: 'The Reader as Traveller: Interactive Journeys within Fantasy Gamebooks', Travel(l)ing Texts - Texts Travel(l)ing, Symposium on the Occasion of Hans Sauer's 75th Birthday, Munich.
2019: 'Fictional Englishes: Inventing a Past, Imagining a Future', 1st Symposium on Linguistic Identities, Stavanger (programme here).
2019: 'Old English Words in Modern Contexts: The Resurrection or Reforming of Extinct Lexical Items', Medieval Symposium, 24th International Association of University Professors of English Triennial Conference (IAUPE), Poznań (information here) (programme here).
2019: 'Creating a "Shadow Tongue": The Merging of Two Language Stages', 26th International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds (information here).
2018: 'Linguistic Medievalism in the 21st Century', 4th The Middle Ages in the Modern World Conference (MAMO), Rome (information here).
2018: 'Old English in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien', IKS Forskningscabaret, Stavanger (information here), & 2019, UiS Open Day, Stavanger (information here).
2017: 'Reviving a Past Language Stage: Modern Takes on Old English', accepted for 5th International Conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL), 24th International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, paper 802-c (information here) (programme here), & 2018, 6th Middle English Scribal Texts Symposium (MEST), Stavanger (information here).
2017: 'Middle English in the Modern World', 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), Stavanger (information here) (programme & abstracts here), & accepted for 3rd The Middle Ages in the Modern World Conference (MAMO), Manchester, session 7C (information here) (programme here) (abstracts here).
2016: 'Pseudo-Old English for a Modern Audience: Linguistic Creativity in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake', 31st International Conference on Medievalism, Bamberg (programme here).
2015: 'Ausflüge in die englische Sprachgeschichte mit J. R. R. Tolkien', 17th Tolkien Thing, Breuberg (information here) (programme here), & 4th MantiCon, Heppenheim (information here) (programme here).
2014: 'Old English, Middle English and Modern Media', Lecture Cycle: English-Speaking Cultures, Würzburg.
2014: 'Exploring the Linguistic Past through the Work(s) of J. R. R. Tolkien', Lecture Cycle: Einmal Tolkien und wieder zurück: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf J. R. R. Tolkien und sein Werk, Augsburg (information here) (programme here), & 2015, Guest Lecture, Rostock, & 2018, Språkforum, Stavanger (programme here), & 2018, Guest Lecture, Munich (information here), & 2019, Guest Lecture, Aarhus.
2014: 'The Creation of Pseudo-Archaisms in the 18th Century: A Linguistic Study of Thomas Chatterton's Rowley Poems', 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Leuven (programme here) (abstracts here).
2014: 'Graphemik und Orthographie in englischsprachigen Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games: Verwendung und Erkennbarkeit', Linguistisches Kolloquium, Würzburg (programme here).
2014: 'Übersetzungen moderner Texte ins Alt- und Mittelenglische', Symposium Probleme des Übersetzens: Sprache - Literatur - Kultur, Würzburg (programme here).
2013: 'The English Language in Australia and New Zealand', Lecture Cycle: English-Speaking Cultures, Würzburg.
2013: 'The Medievalism of Language: Translations of Modern Texts into Old and Middle English', 1st The Middle Ages in the Modern World Conference (MAMO), St Andrews (programme here) (abstracts here) (info here), & 2016, 5th Middle English Scribal Texts Symposium (MEST), Stavanger (information here).
2009: 'Graphemics and Orthography in Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games: Use and Recognition', Antrittsvorlesung, Münster.
2008: A. Haselow, 'Derivation of Nouns Denoting Objects and Locations: the Historical Development of Two Marginal Categories in English' (speaker), 10th Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM), Düsseldorf.
2005: 'The Presentation and Interactivity of Pseudo-Medieval Settings in Computer Role-Playing Games', Interactivity of Digital Texts Conference, Münster.
2005: 'The Old English Lexicon: Dictionaries and Size', 7th Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM), Bochum (speaker G. Knappe).
2004: 'Linking Old English and Middle English: the Peterborough Chronicle as an Introductory Teaching Tool to the History of English', 13th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Vienna, Peterborough Chronicle Panel (abstract in Old English Newsletter 38:3 (2005), 55-6, available here).
2003: 'Low German Loanwords in Middle English: the Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionaries', 10th International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, Paper 710-b.
2001: 'A Middle English Addition to Ælfric's Passion of St Andrew', 8th International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, Paper 717-b.
2000: 'Cambridge, University Library Ii. 1. 33: a Case Study', 7th International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, Paper 210-c (abstract in Old English Newsletter 33:3 (2000), A-45, available here).
2000: 'Later Medieval Glosses in Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33', 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), Kalamazoo, Paper 034-b (abstract in Old English Newsletter 33:3 (2000), A-17, available here).

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