Introduction

Sociolinguistic perspectives on historical multilingualism in Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID19437812
AuthorsAndreas Krogull (0000-0003-2271-9422, Deutsches Seminar Zurich Switzerland), Gijsbert Rutten (0000-0002-6105-8949, Leiden University Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Leiden Netherlands)
Year2025
Volume39
Issue1
Pages1-8
Publication date2025-05-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociolinguistica - International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics / Internationales Jahrbuch für europäische Soziolinguistik (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0933-1883 • E-ISSN: 1865-939X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/soci-2025-0009
OpenAlexW4410931526
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

The multilingual turn in historical socio-linguistics1Historical multilingualism and language contact effects have by no means been absent from historical-sociolinguistic research since its emergence in the 1980s.Early publications include Schendl and Wright (2011), who addressed code-switching in historical English, and who already observed and described what have come to be called multilingual practices in more recent publications (Pahta et al. 2017).Wright (2000) drew attention to the multiple origins of standard English, thus challenging the monolingual assumptions of earlier language histories.This approach eventually resulted in Wright (2020).Recent years have seen an increased interest in multilingualism and language contact (Hning et al

Linguistics · Multilingualism · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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