Records of Real People
Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
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.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Note on the cited texts and conventions | pp. ix–9
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Part I. Approaches to Middle English local documents
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Chapter 1. Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval EnglishMerja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs | pp. 3–22
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Chapter 2. Grouping and regrouping Middle English documentsMartti Mäkinen | pp. 23–36
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Chapter 3. The categorization of Middle English documents: Interactions of function, form and languageMerja Stenroos, Geir Bergstrøm and Kjetil V. Thengs | pp. 37–68
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Chapter 4. The geography of Middle English documentary textsMerja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs | pp. 69–92
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Part II. Text communities and geographical variation
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Chapter 5. Regional variation and supralocalization in late medieval English: Comparing administrative and literary textsMerja Stenroos | pp. 95–128
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Chapter 6. Cambridge: A University townGeir Bergstrøm | pp. 129–154
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Chapter 7. Knutsford and Nantwich: Scribal variation in late medieval CheshireKjetil V. Thengs | pp. 155–174
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Chapter 8. Land documents as a source of word geographyMerja Stenroos | pp. 175–202
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Part III. Social and pragmatic variation
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Chapter 9. The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary textsJeremy J. Smith | pp. 205–218
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Chapter 10. Ventriloquism or individual voice: Formulaic language in heresy abjurationsKenneth Solberg-Harestad | pp. 219–248
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Chapter 11. Multilingual practices in Middle English documentsMerja Stenroos and Delia Schipor | pp. 249–277
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References | pp. 279–296
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List of cited documents | pp. 297–306
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Index | pp. 307–310
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