In:Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 10 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Note on the cited texts and conventions
IX
Part I.Approaches to Middle English local documents
Chapter 1.Local documents as source material for the study of late medieval English
3
Merja Stenroos
Kjetil V. Thengs
Chapter 2.Grouping and regrouping Middle English documents
23
Martti Mäkinen
Chapter 3.The categorization of Middle English documents: Interactions of function, form and language
37
Merja Stenroos
Geir Bergstrøm
Kjetil V. Thengs
Chapter 4.The geography of Middle English documentary texts
69
Merja Stenroos
Kjetil V. Thengs
Part II.Text communities and geographical variation
Chapter 5Regional variation and supralocalization in late medieval English: Comparing administrative and literary texts
95
Merja Stenroos
Chapter 6.Cambridge: A University town
129
Geir Bergstrøm
Chapter 7.Knutsford and Nantwich: Scribal variation in late medieval Cheshire
155
Kjetil V. Thengs
Chapter 8.Land documents as a source of word geography
175
Merja Stenroos
Part III.Social and pragmatic variation
Chapter 9.The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts
205
Jeremy J. Smith
Chapter 10.Ventriloquism or individual voice: Formulaic language in heresy abjurations
219
Kenneth Solberg-Harestad
Chapter 11.Multilingual practices in Middle English documents
249
Merja Stenroos
Delia Schipor
References
279
List of cited documents
297
Index
