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Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.

Code switching (Linguistics) --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Multilingualism and literature --- English language --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Literature and multilingualism --- Literature --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Areal linguistics --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Bilingualism --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- History. --- History --- Code-switching --- Germanic languages --- Code-switching. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Multilingualism.

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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or private writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting precedents, promote language change.This interdisciplinary volume aims to place the traders' languages within a wider sociolinguistic context. Questions addressed include: What differences can be observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features that take longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the same language? Do they anticipate language change in the standard register or influence it by setting linguistic precedents? What sets traders' letters apart from private correspondence and other 'low' registers? The book will also examine bilingualism, semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.

Language and languages --- Multicultural education. --- Multilingualism --- Study and teaching. --- Social aspects. --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Intercultural education --- Education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Multicultural education --- Study and teaching --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- Multilingualism Social aspects --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language Change and Variation. --- Merchants. --- Registers.