Code-Switching in Early English

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Code-Switching in Early English

Edited by: Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright

Volume 76 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110253368

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The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect of earlier linguistic contact. Such texts, which switch between Latin, English and French, have increasingly been recognized as instances of written code-switching and as highly relevant evidence for the linguistic strategies which medieval and early modern multilingual speakers used for different purposes.

The contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon of mixed-language texts from the point of view of code-switching, an important mechanism of linguistic change. Based on a variety of text types and genres from the medieval and Early Modern English periods, the individual papers present detailed linguistic analyses of a large number of texts, addressing a variety of issues, including methodological questions as well as functional, pragmatic, syntactic and lexical aspects of language mixing. The very specific nature of language mixing in some text types also raises important theoretical questions such as the distinction between borrowing and switching, the existence of discrete linguistic codes in earlier multilingual Britain and, more generally, the possible limits of the code-switching paradigm for the analysis of these mixed texts from the early history of English.

Thus the volume is of particular interest not only for historical linguists, medievalists and students of the history of English, but also for sociolinguists, psycholinguists, language theorists and typologists.

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Herbert Schendl, University of Vienna, Austria; Laura Wright, Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Code-switching in early English: Historical background and methodological and theoretical issues Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Beyond boundaries: Code-switching in the leases of Oswald of Worcester Herbert Schendl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Code-switching in the later medieval English lay subsidy rolls Richard Ingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Syntactic aspects of code-switching in Oxford, MS Bodley 649 Helena Halmari and Timothy Regetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Death, taxes and property: Some code-switching evidence from Dover, Southampton, and York David Trotter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
On variation in medieval mixed-language business writing Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Multilingual discourse in the domain of religion in medieval and early modern England: A corpus approach to research on historical code-switching Päivi Pahta and Arja Nurmi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
“Gadryng Togedre of Medecyne in the Partye of Cyrugie”: Strategies of code-switching in the Middle English translations of Chauliac’s Chirurgia Magna Simon Meecham-Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Code-switching in Langland, Chaucer and the Gawain poet: Diglossia and footing Ad Putter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
The visual pragmatics of code-switching in late Middle English literature Tim William Machan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index of Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index of Subjects and Languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers working on the History of English, Language Contact, Language Death, Minority Languages, Synchronic Code-Switching, Bilingualism
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Tables: 12
Keywords: Englisch/Language; Language Contact and Change; Romance Languages; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics

eBook

Published: November 30, 2011
ISBN: 9783110253368

Hardcover

Published: November 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110253351