Towards a Multilingual Approach to the History of English: A Critical Review of Elise Louviot and Catherine Delesse, eds. 2017. Studies in Language Variation and Change 2: Shifts and Turns in the History of English. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. ix + 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0030-3 and Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright, eds. 2017. Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. v + 361 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5015-0494-5.

Amanda Roig-Marín

doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.1.10

Towards a Multilingual Approach to the History of English

A Critical Review of Elise Louviot and Catherine Delesse, eds. 2017. Studies in Language Variation and Change 2: Shifts and Turns in the History of English. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. ix + 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0030-3 and Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright, eds. 2017. Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. v + 361 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5015-0494-5.

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Amanda Roig-Marín University of Cambridge, UK

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Amanda Roig-Marín, University of Cambridge, UK

Amanda Roig-Marín, BA (Universitat d’Alacant), MPhil (University of Cambridge), is a PhD student working on the multilingual makeup of texts produced in late medieval England. Her main research interests include both historical and present-day language contact, Middle English Philology, and manuscript studies. She has published her work in journals such as Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica
and Notes and Queries.

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Roig-Marín, A. (2019). Towards a Multilingual Approach to the History of English: A Critical Review of Elise Louviot and Catherine Delesse, eds. 2017. Studies in Language Variation and Change 2: Shifts and Turns in the History of English. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. ix + 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0030-3 and Päivi Pahta, Janne Skaffari and Laura Wright, eds. 2017. Multilingual Practices in Language History: English and Beyond. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter. v + 361 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5015-0494-5. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 41(1), 185–194. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.1.10

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