LEADER 00000cam a2200601 i 4500 001 on1193559144 003 OCoLC 005 20240126125653.0 006 m o d 007 cr ||||||||||| 008 200730s2020 ne ab ob 001 0 eng 010 2020032627 019 1224369546 020 9789027260482|qelectronic book 020 9027260486|qelectronic book 020 |z9789027207951|qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)1193559144|z(OCoLC)1224369546 040 DLC|beng|erda|epn|cDLC|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dN$T|dUKAHL|dYDX |dOCLCO|dEBLCP|dMUU|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 042 pcc 043 e-uk--- 049 RIDW 050 04 PE525|b.R43 2020eb 082 00 427/.02|223 090 PE525|b.R43 2020eb 245 00 Records of real people :|blinguistic variation in Middle English local documents /|cedited by Merja Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs, University of Stavanger. 264 1 Amsterdam ;|aPhiladelphia :|bJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,|c[2020] 300 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) :|bcolor illustrations, color maps. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 490 1 Advances in historical sociolinguistics,|x2214-1057 ; |vvolume 11 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 588 Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 21, 2021). 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 1066-1500|2fast 650 0 English language|yMiddle English, 1100-1500|xHistory. 650 0 English language|yMiddle English, 1100-1500|xDialects. 650 7 English language|xMiddle English|2fast 650 7 English language|xMiddle English|xDialects|2fast 650 7 History|xSources|2fast 651 0 Great Britain|xHistory|yMedieval period, 1066-1485 |xSources. 651 7 Great Britain|2fast 655 7 History|2fast 700 1 Stenroos, Merja-Riitta,|eeditor. 700 1 Thengs, Kjetil V.,|eeditor. 776 08 |iPrint version:|tRecords of real people.|dAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] |z9789027207951|w(DLC) 2020032626|w(OCoLC)1192304249 830 0 Advances in historical sociolinguistics ;|vv. 11. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2683112|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 948 |d20240319|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 1-26-24 6521 |lridw 994 92|bRID