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Dr Sara Pons-Sanz
Reader
Ysgol Saesneg, Cyfathrebu ac Athroniaeth
- Pons-SanzS@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76128
- Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 3.33, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
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I am a member of the Centre for Language and Communication Research (please add relevant link here).
My research focuses on the make-up of medieval English vocabulary from different perspectives (etymology, sociolinguistics and stylistics).
After completing two BAs (BA in English Philology and BA in Spanish Philology) and the equivalent of an MA in English Philology at the University of Valencia (Spain), I pursued an MPhil and a PhD at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. I was then granted a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I took at the University of Nottingham (School of English).
Having spent six years in Nottingham (2004-2010), first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a lecturer, I joined the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, where I taught over five years (2010-2016). I have been at Cardiff University since January 2016.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Cole, M. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2023. Origin and spread of the personal pronoun 'they': La Estorie del Evangelie, a case study. In: Pons-Sanz, S. M. and Sylvester, L. eds. Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Current Methodologies and Approaches. New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 311-342., (10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_11)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2023. Speech representation in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne as a pedagogical tool. Viator 53(1)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2023. Legal glossaries (Old and Middle English). In: Seiler, A., Benati, C. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. eds. Medieval Glossaries from North-Western Europe: Tradition and Innovation. The Medieval Translator Brepols, pp. 272-281.
2022
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2022. Medieval multilingualism and the expression of emotion: fear in the Gawain-Poet's texts. English Language and Linguistics 26(2), pp. 361-398. (10.1017/S1360674320000350)
2021
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2021. Norse-derived vocabulary in La estorie del evangelie. Folia Linguistica 55, pp. 461-491. (10.1515/flin-2021-2032)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2021. Aldred’s glosses to the notae iuris in Durham A.iv.19: personal, textual and cultural contexts. English Studies 102(1), pp. 1-29. (10.1080/0013838X.2020.1866305)
2020
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2020. Fights and games: terms for SPEECH in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 119(3), pp. 353-379. (10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.3.0353)
2019
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2019. Speech representation as a narrative technique in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Review of English Studies 70(294), pp. 209-230. (10.1093/res/hgy094)
2018
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. and MacCoinnich, A. 2018. The languages of Scotland. In: Royan, N. ed. The International Companion to Scottish Literature, 1400-1650. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, pp. 19-37.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2018. Legal vocabulary in Early English translations of the Bible: a study of Johannine Terms. In: Teresi, L. and di Sciacca, C. eds. Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara. ETS Publications
2017
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2017. Reassessing the semantic history of OE brēad / ME brēd. English Language and Linguistics 21(1), pp. 47-67. (10.1017/S1360674316000058)
2016
- Fernandez Cuesta, J. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. eds. 2016. The Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, author and context. Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series Vol. 51. Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter.
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2016. A study of Aldred's multiple glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In: Pons-Sanz, S. M. and Fernandez Cuesta, J. eds. The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Author, Language and Context. Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series Vol. 51. Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter, pp. 301-328.
2015
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2015. Old English style. In: Sotirova, V. ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. Bloomsbury Companions London: Bloomsbury, pp. 569-582., (10.5040/9781472593603.0040)
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2015. Norse-derived terms in Orm's lexico-semantic field of EMOTION. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114(4), pp. 552-586. (10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.4.0552)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2015. Identifying and dating Norse-derived terms in Medieval English: approaches and methods. In: Askedal, J. O. and Nielsen, H. F. eds. Early Germanic Languages in Contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 203-221.
2014
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2014. The language of Early English Lterature: from Cædmon to Milton. Perspectives on the English Language. Palgrave Macmillan.
2013
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2013. The lexical effects of Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact on Old English. Studies in the early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.
2011
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2011. The etymology of the word-field of Old English hōre and the lexico-cultural climate of eleventh-century England. Nottingham Medieval Studies 55, pp. 23-48. (10.1484/J.NMS.1.102418)
2010
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2010. Norse-derived vocabulary in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In: Jorgensen, A. ed. Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History. Brepols, pp. 275-304.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2010. Arabic sources of Scandinavian history. In: Bjork, R. E. ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Sanchez, J. and Pons Sanz, S. M. 2010. Manual d`Anglès Medieval Tardà. Collecció Joan Fuster Materials Docents en Valenciá Vol. 109. Alacant: Universitat d'Alacant.
2008
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2008. Norse-derived terms and structures in The Battle of Maldon. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107(4), pp. 421-444.
2007
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Aldredian Glosses to Proper Names in the Lindisfarne Gospels. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 119(2), pp. 173-192. (10.1515/ANGL.2001.173)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Norse-derived vocabulary in late Old English texts: Wulfstan's works, a case study. North-Western European language evolution. Supplement. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Two compounds in the Old English and Old Norse versions of the Prose Phoenix. Arkiv för nordisk filologi 122, pp. 137-156.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. A paw in every pie: Wulfstan and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle again. Leeds Studies in English 38, pp. 31-52.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. An etymological note on two Old English medical terms: ridesoht and flacg. Studia Neophilologica 79(1), pp. 45-53. (10.1080/00393270701299962)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. A reconsideration of Wulfstan's use of Norse-derived terms: the case of Þræl. English Studies 88(1), pp. 1-21. (10.1080/00138380601042659)
2006
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. OE māl as a gloss for L clasma in Aldhelmian Glossaries. Notes and Queries 53(4), pp. 395-398. (10.1093/notesj/gjl132)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. Anglo-Scandinavian trade or paganism? OE hæðen in the First Cleopatra Glossary. Modern Language Review 101(3), pp. 625-637. (10.2307/20466898)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. Sharpening, confiding and OE getryccað. Notes and Queries 53(2), pp. 146-150. (10.1093/notesj/gjl005)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. OE Fēs(I)an/MeFēsen revisited. Neophilologus 90(1), pp. 119-134. (10.1007/s11061-004-5362-8)
2005
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. The Norse origin of OE afol / ME afell: is evidence strong enough?. English Language Notes 43(2), pp. 1-8.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. Friends and relatives in need of an explanation: Gr. anagkaîos, L necessarius and PGmc *nauð-. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104(1), pp. 1-11.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. An etymological note on OE of lı¯fe forrædan. ANQ: a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 18(2), pp. 7-9. (10.3200/ANQQ.18.2.7-9)
2004
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. For Gode and for worolde: Wulfstan's differentiation of the divine and worldly realms through word-formation processes. English Studies 85(4), pp. 281-296. (10.1080/00138380412331339108)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels. In: Kay, C., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I. eds. New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002., Vol. 2. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Vol. 252. John Benjamins, pp. 177-192.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. Whom did al-Ghazāl meet? An exchange of embassies between the Arabs from al-Andalus and the Vikings. Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 28, pp. 5-28.
2001
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2001. The Basque country and the Vikings during the ninth century. Journal of the Society of Basque Studies of America 21, pp. 48-58.
2000
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2000. Analysis of the Scandinavian loanwords in the Aldredian glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospel. Universidad De Valencia. Servicio De Publicaciones.
Articles
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2023. Speech representation in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne as a pedagogical tool. Viator 53(1)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2022. Medieval multilingualism and the expression of emotion: fear in the Gawain-Poet's texts. English Language and Linguistics 26(2), pp. 361-398. (10.1017/S1360674320000350)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2021. Norse-derived vocabulary in La estorie del evangelie. Folia Linguistica 55, pp. 461-491. (10.1515/flin-2021-2032)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2021. Aldred’s glosses to the notae iuris in Durham A.iv.19: personal, textual and cultural contexts. English Studies 102(1), pp. 1-29. (10.1080/0013838X.2020.1866305)
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2020. Fights and games: terms for SPEECH in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 119(3), pp. 353-379. (10.5406/jenglgermphil.119.3.0353)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2019. Speech representation as a narrative technique in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Review of English Studies 70(294), pp. 209-230. (10.1093/res/hgy094)
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2017. Reassessing the semantic history of OE brēad / ME brēd. English Language and Linguistics 21(1), pp. 47-67. (10.1017/S1360674316000058)
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2015. Norse-derived terms in Orm's lexico-semantic field of EMOTION. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114(4), pp. 552-586. (10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.4.0552)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2011. The etymology of the word-field of Old English hōre and the lexico-cultural climate of eleventh-century England. Nottingham Medieval Studies 55, pp. 23-48. (10.1484/J.NMS.1.102418)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2008. Norse-derived terms and structures in The Battle of Maldon. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107(4), pp. 421-444.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Aldredian Glosses to Proper Names in the Lindisfarne Gospels. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 119(2), pp. 173-192. (10.1515/ANGL.2001.173)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Two compounds in the Old English and Old Norse versions of the Prose Phoenix. Arkiv för nordisk filologi 122, pp. 137-156.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. A paw in every pie: Wulfstan and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle again. Leeds Studies in English 38, pp. 31-52.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. An etymological note on two Old English medical terms: ridesoht and flacg. Studia Neophilologica 79(1), pp. 45-53. (10.1080/00393270701299962)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. A reconsideration of Wulfstan's use of Norse-derived terms: the case of Þræl. English Studies 88(1), pp. 1-21. (10.1080/00138380601042659)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. OE māl as a gloss for L clasma in Aldhelmian Glossaries. Notes and Queries 53(4), pp. 395-398. (10.1093/notesj/gjl132)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. Anglo-Scandinavian trade or paganism? OE hæðen in the First Cleopatra Glossary. Modern Language Review 101(3), pp. 625-637. (10.2307/20466898)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. Sharpening, confiding and OE getryccað. Notes and Queries 53(2), pp. 146-150. (10.1093/notesj/gjl005)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2006. OE Fēs(I)an/MeFēsen revisited. Neophilologus 90(1), pp. 119-134. (10.1007/s11061-004-5362-8)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. The Norse origin of OE afol / ME afell: is evidence strong enough?. English Language Notes 43(2), pp. 1-8.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. Friends and relatives in need of an explanation: Gr. anagkaîos, L necessarius and PGmc *nauð-. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104(1), pp. 1-11.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2005. An etymological note on OE of lı¯fe forrædan. ANQ: a Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 18(2), pp. 7-9. (10.3200/ANQQ.18.2.7-9)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. For Gode and for worolde: Wulfstan's differentiation of the divine and worldly realms through word-formation processes. English Studies 85(4), pp. 281-296. (10.1080/00138380412331339108)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. Whom did al-Ghazāl meet? An exchange of embassies between the Arabs from al-Andalus and the Vikings. Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 28, pp. 5-28.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2001. The Basque country and the Vikings during the ninth century. Journal of the Society of Basque Studies of America 21, pp. 48-58.
Book sections
- Cole, M. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2023. Origin and spread of the personal pronoun 'they': La Estorie del Evangelie, a case study. In: Pons-Sanz, S. M. and Sylvester, L. eds. Medieval English in a Multilingual Context: Current Methodologies and Approaches. New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 311-342., (10.1007/978-3-031-30947-2_11)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2023. Legal glossaries (Old and Middle English). In: Seiler, A., Benati, C. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. eds. Medieval Glossaries from North-Western Europe: Tradition and Innovation. The Medieval Translator Brepols, pp. 272-281.
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. and MacCoinnich, A. 2018. The languages of Scotland. In: Royan, N. ed. The International Companion to Scottish Literature, 1400-1650. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, pp. 19-37.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2018. Legal vocabulary in Early English translations of the Bible: a study of Johannine Terms. In: Teresi, L. and di Sciacca, C. eds. Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara. ETS Publications
- Pons-Sanz, S. M. 2016. A study of Aldred's multiple glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In: Pons-Sanz, S. M. and Fernandez Cuesta, J. eds. The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Author, Language and Context. Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series Vol. 51. Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter, pp. 301-328.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2015. Old English style. In: Sotirova, V. ed. The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. Bloomsbury Companions London: Bloomsbury, pp. 569-582., (10.5040/9781472593603.0040)
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2015. Identifying and dating Norse-derived terms in Medieval English: approaches and methods. In: Askedal, J. O. and Nielsen, H. F. eds. Early Germanic Languages in Contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 203-221.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2010. Norse-derived vocabulary in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In: Jorgensen, A. ed. Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History. Brepols, pp. 275-304.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2010. Arabic sources of Scandinavian history. In: Bjork, R. E. ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2004. A sociolinguistic approach to the Norse-derived words in the glosses to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels. In: Kay, C., Hough, C. and Wotherspoon, I. eds. New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002., Vol. 2. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Vol. 252. John Benjamins, pp. 177-192.
Books
- Fernandez Cuesta, J. and Pons-Sanz, S. M. eds. 2016. The Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: Language, author and context. Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series Vol. 51. Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2014. The language of Early English Lterature: from Cædmon to Milton. Perspectives on the English Language. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2013. The lexical effects of Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact on Old English. Studies in the early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Sanchez, J. and Pons Sanz, S. M. 2010. Manual d`Anglès Medieval Tardà. Collecció Joan Fuster Materials Docents en Valenciá Vol. 109. Alacant: Universitat d'Alacant.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2007. Norse-derived vocabulary in late Old English texts: Wulfstan's works, a case study. North-Western European language evolution. Supplement. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark.
- Pons-Sanz, S. 2000. Analysis of the Scandinavian loanwords in the Aldredian glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospel. Universidad De Valencia. Servicio De Publicaciones.
Ymchwil
I am a historical linguist and work mainly on the medieval period. I am particularly interested in Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact and its effects on Old and Middle English. I am currently involved in three collaborative projects, which are linked by this overarching theme:
- ‘The Gersum Project: Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary’ (funded by the AHRC) aims to present a detailed and rigorous survey of Norse-derived words in English. Its main focus lies on the vocabulary of nine texts of the so-called Alliterative Revival of the Middle English period: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, St Erkenwald, Alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, The Destruction of Troy and Wars of Alexander. The results of this research will be presented in a publicly available database where users will be able to explore, amongst other issues, the terms’ etymology, meaning, textual attestations and dialectal distribution.
- ‘The Lindisfarne Gloss in its Dialectal Context: A Comparison between Lindisfarne and the Gloss to the Durham Collectar’ (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) focuses on two texts attributed to the tenth-century glossator Aldred. These texts are written in Old Northumbrian, a dialectal variety of Old English that exhibits some lexical and morphological features characteristic of early Middle English texts. These features are, to some extent, attributable to Scandinavian influence.
- ‘Voices of Law: Language, Text and Practice’ (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) studies the connection between language and legal practice in the North Sea during the early Middle Ages (600-ca1250). Notably, there is a significant number of Norse-derived legal terms in Old English (only law, cp. OE lagu and OIc lög, has survived) and I am keen to understand to what extent changes in legal terminology affected legal practice, as well as the interaction between Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian law.
I have recently become interested as well in English historical stylistics, the topic of my latest book: The Language of Early English Literature: From Cædmon to Milton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Postgraduate students
I am interested in supervising doctoral projects on a topic broadly related to my areas of research: English historical linguistics (including historical dialectology, sociolinguistics and stylistics), medieval English studies, and Germanic linguistics.
Addysgu
I teach various modules on topics associated with language variation and change, such as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and stylistics.
Bywgraffiad
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Co-editor of the series New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Member of the Advisory Board of the NOWELE supplement series (John Benjamins)
- Member of the Editorial Board of SELIM (journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Medieval English Language and Literature)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Affiliate of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics (AMC)
- Member of the International Association of University Professors of English
- Member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
- Member of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
- Member of SELIM, the Spanish Society for the Study of Medieval English Language and Literature
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I am interested in supervising doctoral projects on a topic broadly related to my areas of research:
- English historical linguistics (including historical dialectology, sociolinguistics and stylistics);
- Medieval English studies;
- Germanic linguistics.
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