The first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. A description of OE speech communities informed by the theory of social networks and communities of practice, with special attention to processes of supralocalisation and their correlation to political centralisation in Anglo-Saxon England.
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The first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. A description of OE speech communities informed by the theory of social networks and communities of practice, with special attention to processes of supralocalisation and their correlation to political centralisation in Anglo-Saxon England.
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