The Gersum Project: Follow-On Funding

Gersum 项目：后续资金

• 批准号: AH/T005076/1
• 负责人: Richard Dance
• 金额: $ 10.22万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005076%2F1
• 关键词: Gersum; Project; Follow; Funding

The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as 'the Vikings'). They tend to be everyday words (e.g. husband, skin, window; happy, ill, ugly; cast, die, scare), even personal pronouns (e.g. they), prepositions (e.g. until) and conjunctions (though). Many more terms are still used in the modern dialects of the areas where the Vikings originally settled (i.e. the so-called Danelaw; e.g. dale, fell, gowk; bain, gormless, mickle; attle, flit, laik). The Gersum Project has revolutionised the way in which we identify Norse loans in English by developing an innovative classification based on the reliability of the evidence for Norse derivation. A freely accessible online database classifying over 900 terms, a collection of essays and a series of journal articles will make our findings available to the academic community and other interested readers. We have also built a significant public engagement agenda, delivering 17 public talks, taking part in 4 radio interviews, etc. These activities have evidenced non-academic audiences' interest in the effects that the country's multicultural past has had on the English language, both at the local and national level. With this follow-on project we aim to widen the public impact of our work by developing activities and resources that focus primarily on two sectors: education (primary and secondary school children and their teachers) and cultural heritage. We will:1. Develop a series of online age-appropriate educational resources that will shape the way in which the lasting cultural impact of the Viking presence in England is taught in thousands of primary and secondary schools across the country. The resources will focus on present and past manifestations of Norse-derived words in English in general and the northern dialects in particular, with special emphasis on the North-West Midlands (the area where the texts included in the Gersum corpus originate). The resources will include written content, audio recordings by speakers from different dialectal areas, video recordings of lectures by the Gersum Team and other experts, interactive activities and downloadable resources that can be used in the classroom. Recent changes in the History A-level curriculum of the OCR examining board, where the prominence of this topic has significantly increased, underpin the timeliness of these resources. 2. Establish focus groups with teachers and examination board members, a teacher panel and training sessions in the use of the resources. Collaborating with the relevant stakeholders throughout the project and having the support of various educational organisations will enable us to create relevant and engaging resources that can be widely publicised and used.3. Train York Archaeological Trust's (YAT; our project partner) front-of-house staff (particularly those working at the JORVIK Viking Centre) in topics concerning the Vikings and their presence in England, with particular focus on their linguistic impact. Need for training has arisen as a result of JORVIK's closure from 2015 to 2017 because of flood damage and subsequent staff changes. We will also provide YAT with a staff training manual for future use and linguistic information for their virtual learning environment. 4. Hold two family days at St Mary's Creative Space (Chester), in conjunction with Cheshire Record Office, and YAT's Barley Hall (York), respectively, as part of the nationwide Being Human festival, where visitors of all ages will be invited to explore the rich linguistic heritage of these dialectal areas through a series of activities aimed at different ages, including arts and crafts, storytelling and public lectures. The data and feedback that we gather during these days will further help the development of our educational resources.

标准英语的词汇量包括大约600个来自古斯堪的纳维亚语的单词，古斯堪的纳维亚语是从9世纪到11世纪在英国定居的斯堪的纳维亚新来者(俗称“维京人”)的语言。它们往往是日常用语(例如：丈夫、皮肤、窗户；快乐、不好、丑陋；铸造、死亡、惊吓)，甚至是人称代词(例如，他们)、介词(例如，直到)和连词(虽然如此)。更多的术语仍在维京人最初定居的地区的现代方言中使用(即所谓的Danelaw；例如，Dale，Fall，Gowk；Bain，Gormless，Mickle；attle，flit，laik)。格尔苏姆项目根据北欧派生证据的可靠性开发了一种创新的分类，彻底改变了我们识别英语斯堪的纳维亚贷款的方式。一个免费访问的在线数据库，分类了900多个术语，收集了一系列论文和一系列期刊文章，将把我们的发现提供给学术界和其他感兴趣的读者。我们还制定了一项重要的公共参与议程，发表了17次公开演讲，参加了4次电台采访，等等。这些活动证明了非学术受众对该国多元文化过去在地方和国家一级对英语语言产生的影响的兴趣。通过这一后续项目，我们的目标是通过开展主要侧重于两个部门的活动和资源，扩大我们工作的公众影响：教育(中小学生及其教师)和文化遗产。我们将：1.开发一系列适合年龄的在线教育资源，这些资源将塑造英国数千所中小学教授维京人存在的持久文化影响的方式。这些资源将侧重于挪威语词在英语中的现在和过去的表现，特别是北方方言，特别强调西北米德兰兹郡(Gersum语料库中的文本起源的地区)。这些资源将包括书面内容、来自不同方言地区的演讲者的录音、Gersum团队和其他专家的讲座录像、互动活动和可在课堂上使用的可下载资源。OCR考试委员会历史A级课程最近的变化，这一主题的重要性显著增加，巩固了这些资源的及时性。2.建立由教师和考试委员会成员组成的重点小组、教师小组和资源使用培训课程。在整个项目过程中与相关利益攸关方合作，并得到各教育组织的支持，将使我们能够创建相关和吸引人的资源，并可广泛宣传和使用。培训约克考古信托基金(YAT；我们的项目合作伙伴)的前台工作人员(特别是在JORVIK维京中心工作的人员)，了解有关维京人及其在英国的存在的主题，特别关注他们的语言影响。由于2015年至2017年JORVIK因洪水破坏和随后的工作人员变动而关闭，因此出现了培训需求。我们亦会为YAT提供员工培训手册，以供日后使用，以及为他们的虚拟学习环境提供语言资料。4.作为全国Being Human节日的一部分，分别与柴郡记录办公室和Yat‘s Barley Hall(约克)联合在圣玛丽创意空间(切斯特)举办两个家庭日，邀请所有年龄段的游客通过一系列针对不同年龄段的活动，包括艺术和手工艺、讲故事和公开讲座，探索这些方言地区丰富的语言遗产。我们在这些日子里收集的数据和反馈将进一步帮助我们的教育资源的发展。