Language and History in Viking Age England English: Linguistic Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English - Couverture souple

Townend, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2503518419 ISBN 13 : 9782503518411

Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2005

Synopsis

This is the first ever book-length study for the nature and significance of the linguistic contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English in Viking Age England. It investigates in a wide-ranging and systematic fashion a foundational but under-considered factor in the history and culture of the Vikings in England. The subject is important for late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age history; for language and literature in the late Anglo-Saxon period; and for the history and development of the English language. The work's primary focus is on Anglo-Norse language contact, with a particular emphasis on the question of possible mutual intelligibility between speakers of the two languages; but since language contact is an emphatically sociolinguistic phenomenon, the work's methodology combines linguistic, literary and historical approaches, and draws for its evidence on texts in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, and other forms of linguistic and onomastic material. 'Matthew Townend's interdisciplinary study is a stimulating and in many ways ground breaking research work. It offers a profound analysis of one of the central issues of Viking Age England: the linguistic relations between and mutual intelligibility of speakers of Old Norse and Old English.' [Susanne Kries, Universitaet Potsdam]

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Townend is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols N.V.
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2503518419
• ISBN 13: 9782503518411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible