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.
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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
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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.
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