Richard Ingham 
The Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts [PDF ebook] 

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.


The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a rich and highly valuable record of the French language in the middle ages.


Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.

Daftar Isi

Introduction. Anglo-Norman: New Themes, New Contexts – Richard Ingham

Later Anglo-Norman as a Contact Variety of French – Richard Ingham

The Sources of Standardisation in French – Written or Spoken? – Anthony Lodge

‘Husbonderie’ and ‘Manaungerie’ in Later Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters – W Rothwell

Bridging the Gap: The [Socio]Linguistic Evidence of Some Medieval English Bridge Accounts – D A Trotter

From
apareil to
warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing – Louise Sylvester

From
apareil to
warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing – Mark C Chambers

Languages in the Military Profession in Later Medieval England – Anne Curry and Adam Chapman and Adrian R. Bell

The Language of the English Legal Profession: The Emergence of a Distinctive Legal Lexicon in Insular French – Paul Brand

Mapping Insular French Texts? Ideas for Localisation and Correlated Dialectology in Manuscript Materials of Medieval England – Jean-Pascal Pouzet

A Pilot Study on the Singular Definite Articles
le and
la in Fifteenth-Century London Mixed-Language Business Writing – Laura Wright

Investigating Anglo-Norman Influence on Late Middle English Syntax – Eric Haeberli

The Transmission of Later Anglo-Norman: Some Syntactic Evidence – Richard Ingham

Tentang Penulis

Laura Wright is a Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of English.