What is it about?

This article examines how long Norwich was a trilingual city (English, Dutch, French) after the arrival of many immigrants in the city from 1565 onwards.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

It argues for the need to use not only secondary sources but also primary sources when investigating the use of language in a historical context.

Perspectives

This is part of a larger project to map the language history of early modern Norwich, the second city of England at this time.

Christopher Joby
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Read the Original

This page is a summary of: Trilingualism in early modern Norwich, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2016-0013.
You can read the full text:

Read

Contributors

The following have contributed to this page