Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

Table of contents

Contributor Information

Chapter 1. Włodarczyk, Matylda, Jukka Tyrkkö and Elżbieta Adamczyk

Intersections of modalities from medieval to modern times

Part One: Multilingualism vs. modes as semiotic resources and elements

Chapter 2. Rogos-Hebda, Justyna

Multimodal contexts for visual code-switching: scribal practices in two manuscripts of Gower’s Confessio Amantis

Chapter 3. Seiler, Annina

Multilingualism in medieval English glossaries: A multimodal analysis

Chapter 4. Włodarczyk, Matylda and Elżbieta Adamczyk

Metalinguistic and visual cues to the co-occurrence of Latin and Old Polish in the Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths, 1386-1446 (eROThA)

Chapter 5. Peikola, Matti and Mari-Liisa Varila

Multimodal and multilingual practices in late medieval English calendars

Chapter 6. Kopaczyk, Joanna

Bringing together multilingualism and multimodality

Part Two: Multilingualism vs. modes as cultural practices

Chapter 7. Tyrkkö, Jukka

"Bong swore, mesdarms et messures": Code-switching and multimodality in Punch magazine during the Victorian times and beyond

Chapter 8. Henning Radke and Arjen Versloot

Multilingualism, multimodality and the role of gender

Chapter 9. Limatius, Hanna

Examining the multimodal and multilingual practices of Finnish social media influencers

Chapter 10. Sebba, Mark

Multimodal, multidimensional, multilingual: An approach to product packaging

Index

List of Contributors

Justyna Rogos-Hebda is assistant professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests focus on medieval multimodality, visual pragmatics of scribal texts and Middle English paleography. She has published on scribal languages, visual communication in Middle English manuscripts and the changing functions of Latin abbreviations in vernacular texts.

Annina Seiler is an Academic Associate at the English Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She teaches and researches on various topics in English historical linguistics with a focus on Old and Middle English. Her research interests centre on questions relating to genres and text types, orality and literacy, historical multilingualism and the history of linguistic thought. Currently, she is working on medieval glossaries and other lexicographic works, which she investigates from a linguistic as well as a pragma-philological perspective. ORCID: 0000-0003-3576-1435

Matti Peikola ORCID: 0000-0002-9004-8926.

Matti Peikola is Professor of English at the University of Turku. His research fields include Middle and Early Modern English philology, textual scholarship and book history. He leads the Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) project funded by the Academy of Finlad and the University of Turku for 2021–2025.

Dr Mari-Liisa Varila (ORCID: 0000-0002-2930-0854) is a lecturer at the Department of English, University of Turku. Her research interests include late medieval and early modern English book production in both manuscript and print, book producers’ metadiscursive practices, and the interaction between visual and verbal elements on the page. Methodologically, her research combines book studies with historical discourse linguistics.

Joanna Kopaczyk is Senior Lecturer in Scots and English at the University of Glasgow. She is a historical linguist with an interest in corpus methods, formulaic language, the history of Scots and historical multilingualism. Her most recent co-edited collections include　Language on the move across domains and communities　(PFRLSU 2020),　Historical dialectology in the digital age　(Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and　Applications of pattern-driven methods in corpus linguistics　(John Benjamins, 2018). She has also published on　The legal language of Scottish burghs　(Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-edited　Binomials in the history of English　(Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Communities of practice in the history of English (John Benjamins, 2013).

Justyna Legutko is a PhD candidate at Linnaeus University, Sweden. In 2018, she completed her Master degree in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on multilingualism in education, language policy and practice as well as cross-curricular teaching approaches to language education, in particular writing pedagogy. ORCID 0000-0001-7193-5047.

Henning Radke is lecturer for German and Sociolinguistics and PhD candidate at the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. He focuses on Germanic languages and (the social meaning of) multilingualism.

orcid number: 0000-0002-3055-507X

Arjen Versloot is professor for Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam and focuses on language variation and language change in (older) Germanic languages.

orcid number: 0000-0003-2141-6956

Hanna Limatius is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Marketing and Communication at the University of Vaasa, Finland. ORCID: 0000-0002-2842-2358.

Mark Sebba is Reader Emeritus in Sociolinguistics and Language Contact at Lancaster University. He has published extensively on pidgin and creole languages, conversational code switching in bilingual communities, and the Sociolinguistics of Orthography. More recently his research has been about multilingual literacies - specifically, written texts which contain a mixture of languages. Since 2017 he has published several papers dealing with language questions in national censuses.

Biography

Matylda Włodarczyk is University Professor in the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She has worked on the historical (socio-)pragmatics of specialised discourses. She has conducted, with Elżbieta Adamczyk and Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow) a project devoted to multilingualism in the medieval Greater Poland court oaths and co-authored the eROThA repository (2014–2019).

Jukka Tyrkkö is Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests extend from the Middle Ages to the present day, focusing on a wide range of topics including corpus linguistic methodology, lexis and phraseology, the history of medical writing, multilingualism, historical lexicography, the language of politics and history of the book. He has compiled a number of historical corpora and he develops corpus linguistic software. His recent edited volumes include Historical Dictionaries in their Paratextual Context (edited with R.W. McConchie for Mouton de Gruyter, 2018) and Applications of Pattern-Driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics (edited with Joanna Kopaczyk for John Benjamins, 2018). ORCID: 0000-0001-5251-5338

Elżbieta Adamczyk is Junior Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. Her research interests concentrate on English historical linguistics, especially historical morphology, linguistic variation, comparative Germanic linguistics, historical multilingualism and language contact in medieval Europe. She is the author of a monograph on nominal morphology of early Germanic languages (Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic, John Benjamins, 2018) and a co-author of the eROThA repository.