A Host of Tongues…

Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period

Program

Thursday, 13 December 2018

Hour / Chair Reception Desk / Auditorium 1

9:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Opening Session

10:30 - 11:30 Theo Hermans (University College London): Languages and Translation in the Low Countries 1550-1700

Auditorium 1 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

TRANSLATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND TRANSLATION AND

CULTURAL HISTORY
TRANSLATING VERNACULARS TRANSLATING

Translation of scientific and Translating to and from

Women and language The persistence of Latin
political texts Spanish
Sara NORJA Hilary BROWN Juan María GÓMEZ David CARMONA
(U. Turku) (U. Birmingham) GÓMEZ CENTENO
Vernacularising alchemy: Multilingualism as cultural (U. Extremadura) (U. Extremadura)
The (re)translations of The capital: women and Por la dignidad y la utilidad Diego Gracián’s
Mirror of Alchemy translation at the German de la lengua latina en el translations and Greek
11:30 - 12:00 courts (1600-1635) siglo XVIII: el discurso Pro loanwords: an important
lingua Latina de Girolamo factor for the development of
Lagomarsini Spanish language
vocabulary in the 16th
century

Chiara BENATI Nana METREVELI Eustaquio SÁNCHEZ Vicente LLEDÓ-GUILLEM

(U. Genova)
The linguistic practice of a
Low German surgeon in
12:00 - 12:30 Copenhagen, Kongelige
Bibliotek, GKS 1663 4to
Charlotte MCCALLUM
(Queen Mary University,
London)
Monarchy, republicanism
12:30 - 13:00 and absolute princes: the
translation of Machiaveilli
in 17th century England
(Institut National des SALOR (Hofstra University, New
Langues et Civilisations (U. Extremadura) York)
Orientales) Sanctius y el sermo In search of a Hispanic
The Secret Writing of hispanolatinus en el siglo language for the Spanish
Georgian Women XVI empire: translating Ausiàs
March’s poems in the Early
Modern period
Sónia COELHO Javier ESPINO MARTÍN Dwight TENHUISEN
Susana FONTES (U. Nacional Autónoma de (Calvin College, Grand
(UTAD/CEL) México) Rapids)
Neglected voices: women Política imperial y God wants money in your
and language in the gramática: idiosincrasias mouth: A host of tongues in
Portuguese tradition religiosas en la enseñanza Carancha's Coronica
del latín en España y el moralizada and its
Nuevo Mundo translations

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:25 Antje Flüchter (Bielfeld University): Cultural Encounter and Cultural Translation: Some Methodological Thoughts

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Hour / Chair Auditorium 1 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

TRANSLATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND LINGUISTICS AND

CULTURAL HISTORY
TRANSLATING VERNACULARS LANGUAGE TEACHING

Translation of religious Processes of cultural Discovering Slavic Teaching and Learning

texts transfer Languages
Vuk-Tadija BARBARIĆ Angelo CATTANEO Simeon DEKKER Tanja ACKERMAN
(Institute of Croatian (FCSH NOVA / CHAM) (U. Bern) Julia HÜBNER
Language and Linguistics) Early modern global history, The pragmatics of (Freie Universität Berlin)
Ivana ETEROVIĆ linguistic phenomena and dialogicality in Russian: A multilingual corpus of the
(U. Zagreb) periodization interplay of local and Early Modern period: norms
15:30 - 16:00 Croatian bible translations foreign elements and standards in the context
in the Early Modern period: of foreign language
a historical sociolinguistic learning
approach

Matteo MIGLIORELLI Madalena MATOS Agnieszka SŁOBODA Maria Celeste AUGUSTO

(U. Pisa)
Religious testimonies:
presentation of cantiga
16:00 - 16:30 “Translaçao da Lingua
Malabar grandonica em
Lingua Portugueza […]
acerca da morte de D.
Cariati"
(FCSH-Nova) (Adam Mickiewicz
Processes of cultural University, Poznań)
transfer: the nanban armour The influence of Latin on the
syntax of the old Polish
language
(U. Utrecht)
Taming an unruly
language: the first
Portuguese-Dutch
dictionary as a learning
device

Kajsa BRILKMAN Ruizhong DING František MARTÍNEK Maria José CORVO

(U. Lund) (U. Bonn) (Charles University of SÁNCHEZ
Translation and From missionary to earth Prague) (U. Vigo)
compilation: the transit of god/ 從傳教士到土地爺: the The lexicon of three Czech Diachronic analysis of
Luther´s works and Lutheran study of Jesuit Fang Dewang translations of the Historia language textbooks around
16:30 - 17:00 confessional culture in late in the late Ming Dynasty/ Bohemica of Eneas Silvius Renaissance Humanism in
16th century Sweden 明末耶穌會士方德望研究 Europe: the situation of
German in the language
manuals

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break

Elena PARINA Elena LOMBARDO Lelija SOČANAC Maria João MARÇALO

(Philipps-Universität (U. Lisbon) (U. Zagreb) Ana Alexandra SILVA
Marburg) E praticaram por lingoa Slavic-Romance language (U.ÉVORA / CEL)
17:30 - 18:00 Strategies of translating bom espaço”: contacts in Dubrovnik in the Antonio Vieyra's pioneering
religious texts into Welsh in Communication practices in early modern period grammar of Portuguese as a
the sixteenth century northwest Africa in the 15th foreign language
and 16th centuries
Yahya POLAT Alena FIDLEROVÁ Teresa MOURA
Satylmysh BACAK (Charles University, Prague) (UTAD / CEL)
(Ala-Too University, On the verge of modernity: Características
Bishkek) German and Czech in Latin grafofonéticas das vogais
Quran Translations in secondary school instruction francesas na gramática O
18:00 - 18:30 Europe (1400-1800) in Enlightenment Bohema mestre francez ou novo
methodo Para aprender a
Lingua Franceza por meio
da Portugueza de Francisco
Durand

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Marija LAZAR Ulrike VOGL

(Saxon Academy of Miriam BOUZOUITA
Sciences, Leipzig) (U. Ghent)
Translation history seen Learning to speak a foreign
18:30 - 19:00 through the legal lens: legal language in the 16th
translations as landmarks in century: on discourse
Slavic language markers in multilingual
emancipation dialogue books

19:00-20:30 Port wine reception

Friday, 14 December 2018

Joan-Pau Rubiés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Translating languages and (mis) translating cultures in
09:00 - 09:55
the Jesuit missions

Hour / Chair Auditorium 1 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

TRANSLATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND LINGUISTICS AND

MULTILINGUALISM
TRANSLATING VERNACULARS LANGUAGE TEACHING

Interpreters in the Multilingualism in English

Latin vs the vernaculars Missionary Linguistics
Portuguese Empire Literature
John MILTON Peter AUGER Anna ADAMSKA Carlos ASSUNÇÃO (UTAD /
(U. São Paulo) (U. Birmingham) (U. Utrecht) CEL)
Jurubaças, Línguas, Beyond the French influence The splendid career of a late Projeções de gramáticas
Escrivães, Topazes, Padres: on Renaissance English vernacular: Polish as a portuguesas e latinas nas
10:00 - 10:30 interpreters in Macau in the literature written and literary descrições das línguas
Early Modern period language in the late japonesa e indiana nos
medieval and early modern séculos XVI e XVII
period
Elsa PENALVA Laetitia SANSONETTI Lucia ASSENZI Mariana BOSCARIOL
(FCSH-NOVA \ CHAM) (U. Paris Nanterre) (Università degli Studi di (FCSH NOVA / CHAM)
A dispute between two Thomas Nashe’s Polyglot Padova) From Rome to the
""giants"": the case of Narrator in The Unfortunate The vernacular strikes back: “savages” and the “higher”
interpreters in the service of Traveller (1594) the defence of the people in the world:
10:30 - 11:00 Macau in 1632, João vernacular against Latin in Reflections on the Jesuit´s
Rodrigues-Tçuzzu / Lu Gelli’s Capricci del Bottaio approach to the native
Rehan, SJ and Miguel Pinto (1546) and in Ludwig von languages of Brazil and
Anhalt-Köthen's translation Japan in the sixteenth
Anmütige Gespräch (1619) century

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Translating and the Multilingualism in English

Latin vs the vernaculars Missionary Linguistics
Portuguese Empire Literature
Horst SIMON Iolanda PLESCIA Brian BENNETT Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
(Freie Universität Berlin) (Sapienza University of (U. Niagara) (CNRS, Laboratoire
Meeting the ‘Other’: Rome) Latin in Early Modern d'Histoire des Théories
11:30 - 12:00 Encounters of the Multilingualism in Russia: Status Quaestionis Linguistiques, France)
Portuguese on their way to Shakespeare The language of the arts in
India Proença’s posthumous 1679
Vocabulario

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Nicholas BROWNLEES Rui CARVALHO HOMEM Giorgi KUPARADZE Gonçalo FERNANDES

(U. Florence) (U. Porto/CETAPS) Giorgi LEKIASHVILI (UTAD / CEL)
Exploring the Congo ‘False Latin’, Double (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi The oldest extant Bantu
through paratext: the role of Dutch: foreign and domestic State University) dictionary
paratextual in Love Labour's Lost and The vicissitudes of Early
12:00 - 12:30 features in Hartwell’s The Shoemaker's Holiday Modern English in the
translation into English context of the Roman
(1597) of Filippo hegemony
Pigafetta’s Relatione del
reame di Congo (1591)

Rogério Miguel PUGA
(FCSH NOVA \ CETAPS
and CHAM)
Samuel Purchas translates
China: Fernão Mendes
12:30 - 13:00 Pinto’s Peregrination
(1614) in Hakluytus
Posthumus or Purchas his
Pilgrimes (1625)
David SWARTZ Mariza Vieira da SILVA Maria do Céu FONSECA -
(FCSH-NOVA/CETAPS) (UNESP, Brasil) Fernando GOMES
The black and the beautiful Políticas do silêncio: língua, (U. ÉVORA / CEL)
história, cultura Interactions between
Portuguese (as a first and
second language) and
missionary sources in the
18th century

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:25 Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon): Filling in the gaps: Portuguese as a lingua franca of Asia

TRANSLATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND LINGUISTICS AND

MULTILINGUALISM
TRANSLATING VERNACULARS LANGUAGE TEACHING

Multilingualism in English Coining New Language

Jesuit Translation Missionary Linguistics
Literature Varieties
Karen BENNETT Donatella MONTINI Iris BACHMANN Maria Filomena
(FCSH-NOVA / CETAPS) (Sapienza University of (U. Oxford) GONÇALVES
Jesuit translation theory: the Rome) ‘Telling Tongues’: (U. ÉVORA)
legacy of Ciceronianism John Florio’s Bilingual Language contact and The 'Grammatica
15:30 - 16:00 Florio creolization in the colonial Portugueza' of Tranbambar:
Caribbean a witness to the contact
between languages and
cultures

Xiaodan FENG Irene RANZATO Konstanze JUNGBLUTH Rolf KEMMLER

(KU Leuven)
Cultural appeal and
localization: a rhetorical
16:00 - 16:30 translation study of the first
Chinese translation of the
Summa Theologiae in the
17th century
(Sapienza University of
Rome)
Film and TV portrayals of
Early Modern dialogue
(European University (UTAD / CEL)
Viadrina) The contribution of Bento
Coining a new language Pereira's Ars grammatica
variety: Creole in Cape pro lingua lusitana
Verde Islands: 550 years addiscenda (1672) to the
paving the way for diffusion of the Portuguese
Kaboverdianu language in the world

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

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Sheila Moura HUE TRANSLATION AND Britta SCHNEIDER Richard SIMMONS

Maria Alice Gonçalves TRANSLATING (Freie Universität Berlin) (Rutgers University)
ANTUNES ___________________ Diffuse communities, diffuse Distinguishing dialect and
(State University of Rio de Ana Maria BERNARDO languages: formulating: koiné in the Mandarin
17:00 - 17:30 Janeiro) (FCSH-NOVA) non-teleological approaches recorded by Francisco Varo
Cultural exchanges: the case A new era for translation in to language formation (1627-1687)
of the Jesuit Fernão the Early Modern period
Cardim’s treatises and their
translation into English
Regina Célia Pereira da John Patrick LEECH Dagna Zinkhahn Jesse SARGENT
SILVA (U. Bologna) RHOBODES (IHEID/CHAM)
(U. São Paulo) Translation and revolution (European University Exploring missionary
Entre-culturas: contenda in France and England Viadrina) grammars in Portuguese
17:30 - 18:00 entre a Companhia de Jesus Emergence of a Polish- Asia 1550-1650
e os clérigos brâmanes: German student lect
práticas linguísticas na Goa
de Seiscentos

Ferial Ghazoul (American University in Cairo): Translation as Migration: Traveling Literary Classics from Arabic
18:00 - 18:55
and into Arabic

Conference Dinner
20:00 Casa do Alentejo
Rua das Portas de Santo Antão 58, 1150-062 Lisbon

Saturday, 15 December 2018

Hour / Chair Auditorium 1 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

TRANSLATION AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND LINGUA FRANCAS AND

MULTILINGUALISM
TRANSLATING VERNACULARS VERNACULARS

Translating to and from Multilingualism in everyday Europe and the

Beyond Europe
Spanish life Mediterranean
Mark LA RUBIO Delia SCHIPOR Joshua BROWN Eloise WRIGHT (U.
(Arizona State University) (U. Stavanger) (Australian National California)
My soldiers’ baggage”: Multilingual events in University) Literary Chinese as a
Spanish colonial personal documentary texts On the existence of a conquest language in Ming
09:00 - 09:30 transmission and recorded in bishop's Mediterranean lingua dynasty in Yunnan Province,
hybridization of drama in registers from Winchester in franca and the persistence of 1380-1674
the Early Modern 1400-1525 language myths
Philippines

Gerhard EDELMANN Jan ODSTRCILIK Mariarosaria ZINZI Cristina MURU

(U. Vienna)
Proper names in literary
09:30 - 10:00 translations made in the
17th and 18th centuries:
translations of Cervantes'
works into German
(Institute for Medieval (Università degli Studi di (U. Tuscia)
Research, Vienna) Firenze) Lingua francas in India:
Optemus adhuc na milem Greek as a vehicular toward a sociolinguistic
bohu…: multilingualism in language between Venice analysis
15th century Central and Istanbul
European sermons

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Rita QUEIROZ DE BARROS Dorota MASŁEJ Oliver CURRIE Christina MÄRZHÄUSER

(U. Lisbon) Tomasz MIKA (Independent researcher, (U. Mannheim & Augsburg)
Translation-induced lexical (Adam Mickiewicz Lubljana) Enrique RODRIGUES-
change in Early Modern University, Poznań) Conflict and contradiction MOURA
English: a case study on the Cultural and social in national pseudohistorical (U. Bamberg)
consequences of Don conditions of bilingualism in narratives in early modern Ewe-Fon as resistance
Quixote’s translations as Poland in the 15th and Britain and France vernacular in in 18th
evidenced by the Oxford early 16th centuries century Minas Gerais and
10:00 - 10:30
English Dictionary Antonio da Costa Peixoto’s
glossary Obra Nova de
língua Geral de Mina
(1741) as an attempt to
improve colonial
governance

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge): Translation as Transposition in Early Modern Europe

12:00 - 12:15 Closing Session

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