The visual pragmatics of code-switching in late Middle English literature

Machan, Tim William

doi:10.1515/9783110253368.303

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“…Peikola et al 2014, Carroll et al 2013) that historical handwritten texts can be studied both as linguistic and visual objects, i.e., as visual texts (cf. Machan 2011). It is then possible to account better for the inherent variability of the visual and textual elements of the manuscript page by recourse to the communicative context, i.e., through the study of the pragmatic aspects of the manuscript page.…”

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The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

Rogos-Hebda

2016

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

Rogos-Hebda

2016

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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“…Such studies (e.g. Wenzel 1994;Pahta 2003;Machan 2011;Trotter 2011;Wright 2013) have both broken new ground in multiple ways and applied and refined concepts and methods originally introduced in research into contemporary conversational code-switching. More work is also being done on codeswitching involving Early or Late Modern English (e.g.…”

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7. Code-switching in the long twelfth century

Skaffari¹,

Pahta²,

Wright³

2017

Multilingual Practices in Language History

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In the field of historical code-switching research, English historical linguists have been particularly active, exploring medieval and modern data, but as the history of English provides an enormous range of material, it may not be surprising that they have thus far overlooked at least one important sub-period in the English Middle Ages. This is the period immediately following the Norman Conquest of 1066, when England became increasingly trilingual. This chapter is devoted to the long twelfth century, from the late eleventh century until well into the thirteenth. Although the concept of "long century" seems to have been used less frequently by historical linguists than by historians, there are several recent publications in which a "long twelfth century" appears with reference to the history of English between, approximately, the Norman Conquest and the second quarter of the thirteenth century (e.g. Skaffari 2009;Faulkner 2012b;Kwakkel 2012; cf. Treharne 2012). 2 This designation is particularly appropriate here: we encounter several languages in the material dated to this period, which makes a label such as Early Middle English inadequate, particularly as some of the English is not Middle but, rather, Old Englisheven if copied around 1200.The objective of the present chapter is to provide a linguistically orientated overview of code-switching and other multilingual practices in material from the long twelfth century, with English as one of the languages involved. The growing community of historical code-switching researchers has virtually ignored this period, in spite of its "endemic multilingualism" (Trotter 2003: 84) and the recent efforts of scholars working on medieval language and literature to bring this period into focus (particularly Treharne 2012 and Faulkner 2012b). To fill the gap, the extant material needs to be described and examined, and approaches originating in research on other periods tested further. Only the first few steps can be taken here, as the material and phenomena are more diverse and copious than is often expected of this period. 1 The author wishes to acknowledge the Academy of Finland for supporting the Multilingualism in the Long Twelfth Century project (decision number: 257059). 2 Kwakkel (2012: 79) associates this period with the "Twelfth-Century Renaissance", dating it to 1075-1225Skaffari (2009), following the sub-periodisation employed in the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, does not consider primary sources from after 1250; and Faulkner (2012b: 275) "provocatively" chooses to start his long twelfth century with a pre-Conquest date, 1042, the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Treharne's (2012) work on a period similar to ours starts from the earlier of the eleventh-century conquests, the Viking one by Cnut, and continues until 1220.Final draft version (without subsequent minor alterations) of Skaffari, Janne. 2018. Code-switching in the long twelfth century. In Pahta, Päivi, Janne Skaffari & Laura Wright (eds.).

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“…In the 1990s, Laura Wright launched an investigation into Middle English business writing where Latin, Norman French, and the English vernacular came into contact, often within a book entry, a sentence, or within a word, when a non-native inflection was added to a native root and vice versa, just like in the material analyzed by Kucała (1974) (see Wright 1992, 2001. The most recent inquiries into medieval multilingualism are based on medical texts (Pahta 2004(Pahta , 2011, legal and administrative discourse (Kopaczyk 2013b), religious texts (Pahta & Nurmi 2011), scientific language (Kurtz & Voigts 2011) as well as literature (Machan 2011).…”

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Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

Kopaczyk

Włodarczyk

Adamczyk

2016

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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†In this paper we introduce the research plan for the preparation of a searchable electronic repository of the earliest extant legal oaths from medieval Poland drawing on the expertise in historical corpus-building developed for the history of English. The oaths survive in the overwhelmingly Latin land books from the period between 1386 and 1446 for six localities Greater Poland, in which the land courts operated: Poznań, Kościan, Pyzdry, Gniezno, Konin and Kalisz. A diplomatic edition of the oaths was published in five volumes by Polish historical linguists (Kowalewicz & Kuraszkiewicz 1959-1966. The edition is the only comprehensive resource of considerable scope (over 6300 oaths from the years 1386-1446) for the study of the earliest attestations of the Polish language beyond glosses. Recognising some limitations, but most of all its unparalleled coverage of the coexistence of Latin and the vernacular, the ROThA project embarks on transforming the edition into an open up-to-date digital resource. We thus aim to facilitate research into the history of Polish and Latin as well as of the legal system and the related social and linguistic issues of the period.

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The visual pragmatics of code-switching in late Middle English literature

Cited by 17 publications

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The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

The Visual Text: Bibliographic Codes as Pragmatic Markers on a Manuscript Page

7. Code-switching in the long twelfth century

Medieval Multilingualism in Poland: Creating a Corpus of Greater Poland Court Oaths (Rotha)

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