5. A semantic field and text-type approach to late-medieval multilingualism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. Introduction
5. 1. From historical code-switching to multilingual practices in the past 3
6. 2. Historical and modern studies of codeswitching: A tale of mutual enrichment 19
7. II. Borderlands
8. 3. Code-switching in Anglo-Saxon England: A corpus-based approach 39
9. 4. Twentieth-century Romance loans: Code-switching in the Oxford English Dictionary? 61
10. 5. A semantic field and text-type approach to late-medieval multilingualism 77
11. 6. Code-switching and contact influence in Middle English manuscripts from the Welsh Penumbra – Should we re-interpret the evidence from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? 97
12. 7. Code-switching in the long twelfth century 121
13. III. Patterns
14. 8. “Trifling shews of learning”? Patterns of code-switching in English sermons 1640–1740 145
15. 9. The social and textual embedding of multilingual practices in Late Modern English: A corpus-based analysis 171
16. 10. Mining macaronics 199
17. 11. Visual diamorphs: The importance of language neutrality in code-switching from medieval Ireland 223
18. 12. “Latin in recipes?” A corpus approach to scribal abbreviations in 15th-century medical manuscripts 243
19. IV. Contexts
20. 13. Administrative multilingualism on the page in early modern Poland: In search of a framework for written code-switching 275
21. 14. Approaching the functions of historical code-switching: The case of solidarity 299
22. 15. Medieval bilingualism in England: On the rarity of vernacular code-switching 319
23. 16. A multilingual approach to the history of Standard English 339
24. Index 359