32.758, Books: Records of Real People: Stenroos, Thengs (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:05:17
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Records of Real People: Stenroos, Thengs (eds.)

 


Title: Records of Real People 
Subtitle: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents 
Series Title: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.11 


Editor: Merja Stenroos
Editor: Kjetil V. Thengs

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207951 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207951 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207951 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)


Written In: English  (eng)

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