Records of real people : linguistic variation in Middle English local documents /
"English local documents - leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like - provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Advances in historical sociolinguistics ;
v. 11. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Approaches to Middle English local documents. Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English / Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
- Grouping and regrouping Middle English documents / Martti Mäkinen
- The categorization of Middle English documents : interactions of function, form and language / Merja Stenroos, Geir Bergstrøm and Kjetil V. Thengs
- The geography of Middle English documentary texts / Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
- Text communities and geographical variation. Regional variation and supralocalization in late medieval English : comparing administrative and literary texts / Merja Stenroos
- Cambridge : a university town / Geir Bergstrøm
- Knutsford and Nantwich : Scribal variation in late medieval Cheshire / Kjetil V. Thengs
- Land documents as a source of word geography / Merja Stenroos
- Social and pragmatic variation. The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts / Jeremy J. Smith
- Ventriloquism or individual voice : formulaic language in heresy abjurations / Kenneth Solberg-Harestad
- Multilingual practices in Middle English documents / Merja Stenroos and Delia Schipor.
