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Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 13:46:09
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Multilingual Practices in Language History: Pahta, Skaffari, Wright (eds.)

 


Title: Multilingual Practices in Language History 
Subtitle: English and Beyond 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/477182?format=G 


Editor: Päivi Pahta
Editor: Janne Skaffari
Editor: Laura Wright

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501513817 Pages: 361 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for
people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices
witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact
situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a
monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in
historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a
multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto
neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and
analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology,
theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already
introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European
vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical
borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices
share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way
or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next
step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of
the multilingual approach to understanding language history.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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