Publications 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

Publications:

Planned: Co-ed. with M. Kirner-Ludwig, New Creations - Old Sources: Modern Takes on Past English Language Stages.
Forthcoming: 'The Spelling of Conlangs: Fictional Languages and Their Orthographic Representation', in Spelling Identities, ed. K. J. Myrvoll & O. M. Traxel.
Forthcoming: Co-ed. with K. J. Myrvoll, Spelling Identities.
2023: 'The Reader as Traveller: Interactive Journeys within Fantasy Gamebooks', in Travelling Texts - Texts Travelling: A Gedenkschrift in Memory of Hans Sauer, ed. R. Bauer, C. Elsweiler, U. Krischke and K. Majewski, English and Beyond 14 (Munich, 2023), pp. 413-428.
2022: 'Creating a "Shadow Tongue": The Merging of Two Language Stages', in Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries, ed. R. Fletcher, T. Porck & O. M. Traxel, Medievalism 21 (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 95-114.
2022: with R. Fletcher and T. Porck, 'Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism', in Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries, ed. R. Fletcher, T. Porck & O. M. Traxel, Medievalism 21 (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 1-15.
2022: Co-ed. with R. Fletcher and T. Porck, Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Medievalism 21 (Cambridge, 2022).
2021: 'Linguistic Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century', in Middle Ages without Borders: A Conversation on Medievalism, ed. T. di Carpegna Falconieri, P. Savy & L. Yawn, Collection de l'École Française de Rome CEF 586 (Rome, 2021), pp. 340-341 (available here).
2020: 'Old English Words in Modern Contexts: The Resurrection or Reforming of Extinct Lexical Items', in Ihr werdet die Wahrheit erkennen / Ye Shall Know the Truth: Zum Gedenken an den Philologen / In Memory of the Philologist Ewald Standop, ed. H. Sauer & R. Pfeiffer-Rupp (Trier, 2020), pp. 163-178.
2019: 'Middle English in the Modern World', in Current Explorations in Middle English: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017, ed. M. Stenroos, M. Mäkinen, K. Thengs & O. M. Traxel, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 56 (Berlin, 2019), pp. 309-332.
2019: Co-ed. with M. Stenroos, M. Mäkinen & K. Thengs, Current Explorations in Middle English: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 56 (Berlin, 2019).
2018: 'Reviving a Past Language Stage: Modern Takes on Old English', in Aspects of Medieval English Language and Literature, ed. M. Ogura & H. Sauer with M. Hosaka, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 55 (Berlin, 2018), pp. 309-328.
2017: 'Exploring the Linguistic Past through the Work(s) of J. R. R. Tolkien: Some Points of Orientation from English Language History', in Binding Them All: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J. R. R. Tolkien and His Works, ed. M. Kirner-Ludwig, S. Köser & S. Streitberger (Zurich and Jena, 2017), Cormarë Series 37, pp. 279-304.
2017: 'Graphemics and Orthography in Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games: Use and Recognition', in Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: Das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache / From Hieroglyphs to Internet Language: The Relation of Script, Sound and Language, ed. G. Waxenberger, H. Sauer and K. Kazzazi, LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound 2 (Wiesbaden, 2017), pp. 279-295.
2016: 'Old English in the Modern World: Its Didactic Value', Old English Newsletter 46:3 (2016) (available here).
2015: 'Altenglische Wörter in Mittelerde', Der Flammifer von Westernis: Die offizielle Vereinszeitschrift der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. 53 (2015), 37-39.
2015: 'Languages', in Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages Vol. 2, ed. A. Classen (Berlin and New York, 2015), pp. 794-835 (available here).
2012: 'Pseudo-Archaic English: The Modern Perception and Interpretation of the Linguistic Past', Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47: 2-3 (2012), 41-58 (available here).
2012: 'Electronic/Online Resources', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 2, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.2 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1131-1148 (available here).
2011: 'Geschichtlicher Hintergrund', in Invasion der Normannen, ed. S. Farrell and J. Sutherland, transl. M. Agsten, Spielbuch-Abenteuer Weltgeschichte 1 (Frankfurt, 2011), pp. 176-180.
2011: 'The Katherine Group as a Source for the Reconstruction of Unattested Words from the Old English Period', in More than Words: English Lexicography and Lexicology Past and Present. Essays Presented to Hans Sauer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday Part I, ed. R. Bauer and U. Krischke (Frankfurt, 2011), pp. 185-201.
2008: 'Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Elements in Computer Role-Playing Games: Use and Interactivity', Studies in Medievalism 16 (2008), 125-142.
2007: Lexical Instability and Replacement in the History of English with Particular Emphasis on the Documentation of Old English Words: Evidence from the 'Dictionary of Old English' and the 'Oxford English Dictionary' (Münster, 2007) [Habilitationsschrift].
2007: 'Linking Old English and Middle English: the Peterborough Chronicle as an Introductory Teaching Tool to the History of English', in The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle, ed. A. Bergs and J. Skaffari, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 20 (Frankfurt, 2007), pp. 163-174.
2005: 'Low German Loanwords in Middle English: a Comparison Between the Electronic OED (Second Edition) and MED', Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 128 (2005), 41-62.
2004: Language Change, Writing and Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old English Manuscripts: the Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1.33, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie 32 (Frankfurt, 2004) [revised version of PhD dissertation]; reviewed in Cahiers de Civilation Médiévale 52 (2009), 98-99 (S. Morrison); Studies in English Literature (The English Literary Society of Japan) 85 (2008), 227-232 (A. Ono); Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007), 134-137 (M. P. Richards); Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2 (2006), 265-267 (J. R. C. Martyn); Das Mittelalter 11 (2006), 206-207 (W. Rudolf).

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