Molinelli / Ghezzi Multilingualism and Writing Practices in Defining Communities

Italy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-223322-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 415, 350 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

How did everyday writing forge communities in Italy from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages? This interdisciplinary volume maps multilingual practices across public and private texts produced in diverse social settings. Professional documents, private letters, and other text types reveal a rich linguistic and historical landscape. By reading non-literary documents as socially situated acts, the volume brings together historical sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, paleography, and diplomatics, and invites a rethinking of communities of practice, discourse, and text. Case studies show how “writing from below” shaped communities across multiple social contexts.

Zielgruppe

Researchers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molinelli, Piera

Ghezzi, Chiara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Über Autor(innen)

Piera Molinelli & Chiara Ghezzi , Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy.