Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Multilingual Practices in Language History

English and Beyond

Edited by: Päivi Pahta , Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright

Volume 15 in the series Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504945

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About this book

Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.

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Päivi Pahta, University of Tampere, Finland; Janne Skaffari, University of Turku, Finland; Laura Wright, University of Cambridge, UK

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I. Introduction
1. From historical code-switching to multilingual practices in the past Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Historical and modern studies of codeswitching: A tale of mutual enrichment Penelope Gardner-Chloros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
II. Borderlands
3. Code-switching in Anglo-Saxon England: A corpus-based approach Herbert Schendl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Twentieth-century Romance loans: Code-switching in the Oxford English Dictionary? Rita Queiroz de Barros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. A semantic field and text-type approach to late-medieval multilingualism Louise Sylvester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6. Code-switching and contact influence in Middle English manuscripts from the Welsh Penumbra – Should we re-interpret the evidence from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Simon Meecham-Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. Code-switching in the long twelfth century Janne Skaffari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
III. Patterns
8. “Trifling shews of learning”? Patterns of code-switching in English sermons 1640–1740 Jukka Tuominen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9. The social and textual embedding of multilingual practices in Late Modern English: A corpus-based analysis Arja Nurmi, Jukka Tyrkkö, Anna Petäjäniemi and Päivi Pahta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
10. Mining macaronics Šime Demo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
11. Visual diamorphs: The importance of language neutrality in code-switching from medieval Ireland Tom ter Horst and Nike Stam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
12. “Latin in recipes?” A corpus approach to scribal abbreviations in 15th-century medical manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
IV. Contexts
13. Administrative multilingualism on the page in early modern Poland: In search of a framework for written code-switching Joanna Kopaczyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
14. Approaching the functions of historical code-switching: The case of solidarity Aleksi Mäkilähde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
15. Medieval bilingualism in England: On the rarity of vernacular code-switching Richard Ingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
16. A multilingual approach to the history of Standard English Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Students of Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Corpus Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 361
Keywords: Multilingualism; Code-switching; Historical Linguistics

eBook

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9781501504945

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2017
ISBN: 9781501513817