Code-switching in Langland, Chaucer and the Gawain poet: Diglossia and footing

Putter, Ad

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“…Here the function of the French phrase je vous dy 'I tell you' is to increase the friar's authority by showing his (rather limited) learnedness (cf. Putter, 2011).…”

Section: Shorter Multilingual Poemsmentioning

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Code-switching in early English literature

Schendl

2015

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Code-switching has been a frequent feature of literary texts from the beginning of English literary tradition to the present time. The medieval period, in particular, with its complex multilingual situation, has provided a fruitful background for multilingual texts, and will be the focus of the present article. After looking at the linguistic background of the period and some specifics of medieval literature and of historical code-switching, the article discusses the main functions of code-switching in medieval poetry and drama, especially in regard to the different but changing status of the three main languages of literacy: Latin, French and English. This functional-pragmatic approach is complemented by a section on syntactic aspects of medieval literary code-switching, which also contains a brief comparison with modern spoken code-switching and shows some important similarities and differences between the two sets of data.

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“…Here the function of the French phrase je vous dy 'I tell you' is to increase the friar's authority by showing his (rather limited) learnedness (cf. Putter, 2011).…”

Section: Shorter Multilingual Poemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code-switching in early English literature

Schendl

2015

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…Wenzel 1994) while others have applied current sociolinguistic or pragmatic theories (e.g. Davidson 2003, Putter 2011.…”

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“…3 The various text-types and genres studied from a historical CS perspective include legal and documentary texts (e.g. Schendl 2011, Trotter 2011, business writing (Wright 2011), scientific and medical texts (Voigts 1996, Pahta 2004, Meecham-Jones 2011, religious texts (Wenzel 1994, Pahta andNurmi 2011), letters (Swain 2002, Adams 2003, Nurmi and Pahta 2012, drama (Diller 1997/8;Mäkilähde in review), and poetry (Davidson 2003, Putter 2011.…”

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Language choice, language alternation and code-switching in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas

Mäkilähde

2016

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The atlas of Gerardus Mercator (Gerard de Cremer), or the Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura, is one of first modern atlases and one of the most famous of those compiled in the Netherlands. The first (unfinished) edition was published in 1595, but the copperplates were later acquired by Jodocus Hondius (Joost de Hondt) and his business associates. The revised Mercator-Hondius Atlas was published for the first time in 1606 with added maps and texts. The texts printed on verso of the maps were written by Petrus Montanus (Pieter van den Berg), who was a brother-in-law of Hondius and a Latin teacher. Many subsequent editions of the atlas were produced in the years that followed. The first editions were in Latin, but versions in European vernaculars such as French, German and Italian were produced later as well. The present article focuses on the multilingual nature of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1613, editio quarta) by discussing language choice, language alternation and code-switching patterns in different parts of the atlas. The dominant language of the descriptive texts is Latin, but there are also switches into many other languages, including Greek (written in Greek script) and several vernaculars. Furthermore, the map pages tend to indicate the names of different types of area (e.g. cities, seas, and oceans) in different languages. The aim of the present article is to provide a preliminary exploration of the possibilities of approaching the atlas with the aid of concepts and ideas derived from modern code-switching studies. I demonstrate how these concepts can be used to describe the language choice patterns in the text and discuss some of the challenges the data poses for a linguistic approach.

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“…Both of these authors are equally renowned for their rich and linguistically varied vocabulary, yet the Gawain-poet belonged to a different stylistic community (Burnley 1992: 454). Some of the peculiarities of his use of French loanwords have been examined by Clough 1985, andPutter 2011, the former looking into the poet's description of Bertilak's castle, and the latter concentrating on the few instances of code-switching. I hope that the current article will continue this line of studies.…”

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Loanwords and stylistics: on the gallicisms in <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>

Volkonskaya

2013

ESUKA-JEFUL

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This article explores the way in which loanwords become incorporated into a recipient language. It concentrates on the interim period, the time between the borrowing of a new word from a donor language and its incorporation into a recipient language. During this period the new word still retains some of its “foreignness”, its associations with another language and culture, therefore its stylistic potential is enhanced. The material is taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an English poem written in the latter half of the 14th century, at the time of the greatest influx of French words into English. This article shows that the Gawain-poet uses gallicisms as an expressive part of his poetic technique due to their stylistic potential as what were at the time recent borrowings.

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Code-switching in Langland, Chaucer and the Gawain poet: Diglossia and footing

Cited by 6 publications

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Code-switching in early English literature

Code-switching in early English literature

Language choice, language alternation and code-switching in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas

Loanwords and stylistics: on the gallicisms in <i>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</i>

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