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Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documentsEdited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11] 2020
► pp. 69–92
Chapter 4The geography of Middle English documentary texts
Merja Stenroos | University of Stavanger
Kjetil V. Thengs | University of Stavanger
Article outline
- 4.1Geography as a textual parameter in Middle English
- 4.2Changing models of geographical variation
- 4.2.1A “soil somewhere in England”: The idea of the local dialect
- 4.2.2From geographical to social space
- 4.3Connecting texts to localities
- 4.3.1How does a text relate to a place?
- 4.3.2Localizing texts on the basis of localizing clauses
- 4.3.3Historically situated texts
- 4.3.4Inferred localizations: People and places
- 4.4Mapping the localizations
- 4.5Discussion
- 4.6Conclusions
Published online: 10 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.04ste
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.04ste