The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Edited by Laura Wright

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  • Gloria Mambelli

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i19.1176

Keywords:

English historical linguistics, multilingualism, standardisation, standard English, Middle English

Abstract

review of The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by Laura Wright, ed.

Author Biography

Gloria Mambelli

Gloria Mambelli is a PhD student in Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Verona. Her research interests include English historical linguistics and lexicography. Her research project investigates the outcomes of language contact in rural contexts of late medieval England.

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Trotter, David. “Language Contact, Multilingualism, and the Evidence Problem.” The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England. Edited by Ursula Schaefer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. 73-90.

Wright, Laura. “About the Evolution of Standard English.” Studies in English Language and Literature. ‘Doubt Wisely’: Papers in Honour of EG Stanley. Edited by Elizabeth M. Tyler and M. Jane Toswell. London: Routedge, 1996. 99-115.

---. “A Multilingual Approach to the History of Standard English.” Multilingual Practices in Language History. Edited by Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari, and Laura Wright. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. 339-358.

---. “On Variation in Medieval Mixed-language Business Writing.” Code-switching in Early English. Edited by Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. 191-218.

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Published

2022-06-25

Issue

No. 19 (2022): Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises

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