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Multilingualism and language contact in the Cely Letters

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dc.contributor.authorConde Silvestre, Juan Camilo
dc.contributor.departmentFilología Inglesa
dc.contributor.otherFacultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
dc.coverage.spatialInglaterra
dc.coverage.temporalSiglo XV
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-27T08:01:12Z
dc.date.available2025-11-27T08:01:12Z
dc.date.copyright© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH
dc.date.issued2021-06-19
dc.description.abstractThe Cely Letters is a well-known collection of correspondence exchanged by members of this London family of wool merchants and their associates between 1472 and 1488. A substantial part of the corpus was written and received by factors based in Calais, which had been an English outpost in France since 1346 and was strategically connected to the wool marts of the Low Countries. The great majority of the letters are monolingual English texts, thus attesting to the widespread use of the vernacular in personal correspondence by the late fifteenth century. Nevertheless, behind the monolingual English surface, traces of multilingualism are revealed. In this paper, I intend to analyse this issue with a twofold purpose. In the first place, attention will be paid to the multilingual background of the letters, considering both the persistent use of French in late medieval England and the specificity of the business transactions carried out at Calais and the marts, where language contact must have been the norm. In the second place, different textual reflections of such contact in the letters are examined and classified, both as regards the generic conventions of letter writing and as part of the multilingual business context where they were produced and received.
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dc.identifier.citationAnglia: Journal of English Philology, 2021, Vol. 139, N. 2, pp. 327-364
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0023
dc.identifier.eissn1865-8938
dc.identifier.issn0340-5222
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/175949
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Brill
dc.relationFundación Séneca, Centro de Coordinación de la Investigación, Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia, Convocatoria de ayudas para la realización de proyectos de investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 2014 (Proyecto 19331/PHCS/14).
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dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subjectLanguage contact
dc.subjectMiddle english
dc.subjectLetter writing conventions
dc.subjectLexical innovation
dc.subjectCely letters
dc.subjectMultilingualism
dc.subject.odsObjetivo 4: Educación
dc.titleMultilingualism and language contact in the Cely Letters
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