Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D

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.

List of Contributors

1 Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

MATYLDA WŁODARCZYK, JUKKA TYRKKÖ AND ELŻBIETA ADAMCZYK

PART 1

Multilingualism vs Modes as Semiotic Resources and Elements

2 Multimodal Contexts for Visual Code- Switching: Scribal Practices in Two Manuscripts of Gower’s Confessio Amantis

JUSTYNA ROGOS- HEBDA

3 Multilingualism in Medieval English Glossaries: A Multimodal Analysis

ANNINA SEILER

4 Metalinguistic and Visual Cues to the Co- Occurrence of Latin and Old Polish in the Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths, 1386– 1446 (eROThA)

MATYLDA WŁODARCZYK AND ELŻBIETA ADAMCZYK

5 Multimodal and Multilingual Practices in Late Medieval English Calendars

MATTI PEIKOLA AND MARI- LIISA VARILA

6 The Challenges of Bringing Together Multilingualism and Multimodality: Unpacking the Structural Model of Multilingual Practice

JOANNA KOPACZYK

PART 2

Multilingualism vs Modes as Cultural Practices

7 “Bong swore, mesdarms et messures”: Code- Switching and Multimodality in Punch Magazine during Victorian Times and Beyond

JUKKA TYRKKÖ AND JUSTYNA LEGUTKO

8 Referential Multimodality, Multilingualism and Gender: How German Namibians Use Afrikaansand English Brocatives in their Computer-Mediated Communication

HENNING RADKE AND ARJEN VERSLOOT

9 Examining the Multimodal and Multilingual Practices of Finnish Social Media Influencers

HANNA LIMATIUS

10 Multimodal, Multidimensional, Multilingual: Informational and Sociolinguistic Hierarchies in Multilingual Product Packaging

MARK SEBBA

Index