LEADER 03495oam 2200445 450 001 9910794472103321 005 20210508155120.0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011585254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6404713 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011585254 100 $a20210508d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRecords of real people $elinguistic variation in Middle English local documents /$fedited by Merja-Riitta Stenroos, Kjetil V. Thengs 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (322 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a90-272-0795-X 311 $a90-272-6048-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 1. Approaches to Middle English local documents -- Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English -- Grouping and regrouping Middle English documents -- The categorization of Middle English documents: Interactions of function, form and language -- The geography of Middle English documentary texts -- Part 2. Text communities and geographical variation -- Regional variation and supralocalization in late medieval English: Comparing administrative and literary texts -- Cambridge: A university town -- Knutsford and Nantwich: Scribal variation in late medieval Cheshire -- Land documents as a source of word geography -- Part 3. Social and pragmatic variation -- The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts -- Ventriloquism or individual voice: Formulaic language in heresy abjurations -- Multilingual practices in Middle English documents. 330 $a"English local documents - leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like - provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds. However, as relatively few documents have been available digitally or in print, they have been an underresearched resource. This volume shows the tremendous potential of late- and post-medieval English local documents: highly variable in language, often colourful, including developing formulae as well as glimpses of actual recorded speech. The volume contains eleven chapters relating to a new resource, A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The first four chapters outline a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of local documents. The remaining seven present studies of different aspects of the material, including supralocalization, local patterns of spelling and morphology, land terminology, punctuation, formulaicness and multilingualism"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aEnglish language$xHistory$yMiddle English, 1100-1500 606 $aEnglish language$xDialects$yMiddle English, 1100-1500 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yMedieval period, 1066-1485$xSources 615 0$aEnglish language$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish language$xDialects 676 $a427.02 702 $aStenroos$b Merja-Riitta 702 $aThengs$b Kjetil V. 801 0$bCaPaEBR 801 1$bCaPaEBR 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794472103321 996 $aRecords of real people$93865573 997 $aUNINA