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Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
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Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all the articles collected here from leading international experts in their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history, sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and texts studied include a Vatican register ... Read more
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all the articles collected here from leading international experts in their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history, sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and texts studied include a Vatican register ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
D.S.Brewer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859915632
SKU
V9780859915632
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99-15
About Paperback
Laura Wright is a Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of English. LISA JEFFERSON holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. She is the editor of Wardens' Accounts and Court Minute Books of the Goldsmiths' Mistery of London, 1334-1446 (Boydell, 2003) and The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of ... Read more
Reviews for Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
The papers take three general approaches to their subject matter, emphasizing the historical background of medieval language contact, code swuitching, or the lexicographical consequences of multilingualism. At their best these papers apply contemporary linguistic analyses to historical events in ways that illuminate both, and that material advance understanding of medieval multilingualism.
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