Communicative Spaces

Contents: Holger Kusse: Argumente fuer die Schrift und die Sprache: Bemerkungen zur Vita Konstantin-Kyrills und zu Chrabars UEber die Buchstaben - Tom Shippey: The Well-Spoken Saint: Speech and Script in the Old English Andreas - Goeran Wolf: ?e we staefcraeftere hatan cunnon: Reflections on AElfric's Grammatical Terminology - Claudia Aurich: Varying Proverb Structure and the Communicative Space in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century England - Thomas Honegger: Communicative Spaces, Communicating Lovers. Declarations of Love in Marie de France's Lanval and its English Adaptations - Richard Ingham: Sense Extension through English-French Language Contact in Medieval England: The Case of as - Andrew James Johnston: The Exigencies of 'Latyn Corrupt': Linguistic Change and Historical Consciousness in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - Lucia Kornexl: <<Ande sey me bis in clerycall manere!>>. The Elementary Latin Classroom in Late Medieval England as a Communicative Space - Katie Long/Rainer Holtei: Communicative Space in The Owl and the Nightingale: The Communication of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Communication - Ulrike Schenk: The Dream Scene in Havelok the Dane: An Epitome of Literary Creativity in the Early Middle English Romance Tradition - David Trotter: <<Saunz desbriser de hay ou de clos>>: clos(e) in Anglo-French and in English - Beatrix Weber: The Trilingual Register of Legal and Administrative Discourse in Late Medieval England - Laura Wright: The Hammond Scribe: His Dialect, His Paper, and Folios 133-155 of Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.11 - Karl Maroldt: The Phonetic and Phonological Motivation of the <<Great Vowel Shift>> - Christian Prunitsch: Zum Prestige des Polnischen im Kommunikationsraum Polen-Litauen des 16. Jahrhunderts - Maria Lieber/Gesine Seymer: Italienisches im englischen Wortschatz des vor-Elisabethanischen Zeitalters - Manfred Markus: Sirrah in Shakespeare's Plays and beyond: Its Function, Variants and Etymology (from a Corpus-Linguistic Point of View) - Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: <<For, alas! there was not affection between us>>: Letters from Alexander and James Boswell to Abraham Gronovius - Haruko Momma: John Mitchell Kemble and Jacob Grimm: A Cross-national Communication - Hildegard L. C. Tristram/Christina Bismark: On the Demise of Morphological Complexity in English and in the Insular Celtic Languages - A Research Report - Claudia Lange: Text Types, Language Change, and Historical Corpus Linguistics - Konrad Ehlich: Lingua franca - Fakten und Fiktionen - Christian Mair: Why the World is Becoming More Monolingual and More Multilingual at the Same Time - Peter Koch/Wulf Oesterreicher: Language of Immediacy - Language of Distance: Orality and Literacy from the Perspective of Language Theory and Linguistic History.