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Code-Switching in Early English.

The frequent mixing of different languages in early English texts, especially Latin, English and French, has been neglected by historical English linguistics. The contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon within the framework of code-switching theory and, based on a variety of text types...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schendl, Herbert
Otros Autores: Wright, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Colección:Topics in English linguistics ; 76.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; Code-switching in early English: Historical background and methodological and theoretical issues; Beyond boundaries: Code-switching in the leases of Oswald of Worcester; Code-switching in the later medieval English lay subsidy rolls; Syntactic aspects of code-switching in Oxford, MS Bodley 649; Death, taxes and property: Some code-switching evidence from Dover, Southampton, and York; On variation in medieval mixed-language business writing.
  • Multilingual discourse in the domain of religion in medieval and early modern England: A corpus approach to research on historical code-switching"Gadryng Togedre of Medecyne in the Partye of Cyrugie": Strategies of code-switching in the Middle English translations of Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna; Code-switching in Langland, Chaucer and the Gawain poet: Diglossia and footing; The visual pragmatics of code-switching in late Middle English literature; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Subjects and Languages.