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Code-Switching in Early English (Hardcover)
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Code-Switching in Early English (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain
has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of
English. However, bi- and multilingual texts, which are attested in
a large variety of text types, are still an underresearched aspect
of earlier linguistic contact. Such texts, which switch between
Latin, English and French, have increasingly been recognized as
instances of written code-switching and as highly relevant evidence
for the linguistic strategies which medieval and early modern
multilingual speakers used for different purposes. The
contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon of
mixed-language texts from the point of view of code-switching, an
important mechanism of linguistic change. Based on a variety of
text types and genres from the medieval and Early Modern English
periods, the individual papers present detailed linguistic analyses
of a large number of texts, addressing a variety of issues,
including methodological questions as well as functional,
pragmatic, syntactic and lexical aspects of language mixing. The
very specific nature of language mixing in some text types also
raises important theoretical questions such as the distinction
between borrowing and switching, the existence of discrete
linguistic codes in earlier multilingual Britain and, more
generally, the possible limits of the code-switching paradigm for
the analysis of these mixed texts from the early history of
English. Thus the volume is of particular interest not only for
historical linguists, medievalists and students of the history of
English, but also for sociolinguists, psycholinguists, language
theorists and typologists.
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