caa a22 4500 378916092 CHVBK 20180305123553.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/mult.2004.23.4.417 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/mult.2004.23.4.417 Social stratification and patterns of code-switching in Early English letters [Elektronische Daten] [Arja Nurmi, Päivi Pahta] The study deals with multilingualism in a historical perspective, focusing on code-switching between English and other languages in letters written in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. The data is drawn from the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, a large electronic tool designed for historical sociolinguistic research. A related database containing background information on the writers makes it possible to apply the framework of correlational sociolinguistics. While testing the relationship of code-switching with many social variables, the study concentrates on social stratification. The analysis shows clear correlation between the writers' social rank and their code-switching behaviour both in terms of quantity and quality. Other interlinked variables such as gender and education are also significant. The study also confirms that for a full understanding of the phenomenon, microlevel analyses of idiolects and interpersonal relations are needed. © Walter de Gruyter Translation & interpretation nationallicence Sociolinguistics nationallicence Nurmi Arja University of Helsinki. aut Pahta Päivi University of Helsinki. aut Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Walter de Gruyter 23/4(2004-12-01), 417-456 0167-8507 23:4<417 2004 23 mult https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.2004.23.4.417 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.2004.23.4.417 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nurmi Arja University of Helsinki aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pahta Päivi University of Helsinki aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Walter de Gruyter 23/4(2004-12-01), 417-456 0167-8507 23:4<417 2004 23 mult CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter