| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : color illustrations, color maps. |
| Series |
Advances in historical sociolinguistics,
2214-1057 ;
volume 11
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Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 backgrounds. However, as relatively few documents have been available digitally or in print, they have been an underresearched resource. This volume shows the tremendous potential of late- and post-medieval English local documents: highly variable in language, often colourful, including developing formulae as well as glimpses of actual recorded speech. The volume contains eleven chapters relating to a new resource, A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The first four chapters outline a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of local documents. The remaining seven present studies of different aspects of the material, including supralocalization, local patterns of spelling and morphology, land terminology, punctuation, formulaicness and multilingualism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History.
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Dialects.
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Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Sources.
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English language -- Middle English |
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English language -- Middle English -- Dialects |
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History -- Sources |
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Great Britain |
| Chronological Term |
1066-1500 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Stenroos, Merja-Riitta, editor.
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Thengs, Kjetil V., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Records of real people. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027207951 (DLC) 2020032626 (OCoLC)1192304249 |
| ISBN |
9789027260482 electronic book |
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9027260486 electronic book |
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9789027207951 hardcover |
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