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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stenroos, Merja-Riitta (Editor ), Thengs, Kjetil V. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.