Publications

Publication details [#39540]

Pahta, Päivi and Arja Nurmi. 2004. Social stratification and patterns of code-switching in Early English letters. Multilingua 23 (4) : 417–456.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | historical explanation | multilingualism | social stratification

Language as a subject

English, Early-modern

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This contribution to multilingualism from a historical viewpoint, examines code-switching between English and other languages in letters written in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Britain, belonging to the Corpus of Early English Correspondence.