Publications

Publication details [#61436]

Skaffari, Janne. 2016. Code-switching and vernacular support: an early Middle English case study. Multilingua 35 (2) : 203–226.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | education | historical linguistics | power | religious language

Language as a subject

English, Middle | Latin

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

One British Library religious treatise covers various instances of code-switching into Latin and repetition of the Latin content in English. Code-switching and explicative support render here a sense of prestige and direct entry to religious instruction.