Chapter published in:
Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11] 2020
► pp. 37–68

Chapter 3
The categorization of Middle English documents

Interactions of function, form and language

| University of Stavanger
| University of Stavanger
| University of Stavanger
Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction: Categorizing documents
  • 3.2The framework: Textual parameters and contexts of text production
  • 3.3Categorizing the functions of Middle English local documents
    • 3.3.1The functions of documentary texts
    • 3.3.2Function vs genre
    • 3.3.3Functional categories in MELD
  • 3.4Who produced the documents? Communities, institutions and domains
  • 3.5Function and code selection
  • 3.6Function and the material context
  • 3.7Conclusions
Published online: 10 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.03ste