Wallis, C., Seiler, A. and Pagan, H. 2024. Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536. Lexis: Journal of English Lexicology. 3. https://doi.org/10.4000/12izg
| Title | Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536 |
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| Type | Edited issue |
| Authors | Wallis, C., Seiler, A. and Pagan, H. |
| Abstract | Based on an edition of the multilingual glosses, this paper investigates a copy of John of Garland’s Dictionarius extant in Bruges, Public Library, MS 536. This copy, written around AD 1300, perhaps in the vicinity of Bruges, includes some 800 interlinear glosses in Latin, Middle French and Middle English. The glosses target the lexicon and also basic Latin grammar. The linguistic characteristics of the glosses indicate that at least some of the glossators were competent in French as well as in English. Many of the lexemes of the French glosses are attested as loanwords in early Middle English; moreover, there are at least 30 instances of double glosses with French and English. As such, we argue that the glossators used “translanguaging” as a didactic strategy, and that the manuscript may have been created, for instance, for English students planning to study in Paris. |
| Keywords | multilingualism |
| translanguaging | |
| glosses | |
| medieval manuscripts | |
| John of Garland | |
| Bruges Public Library MS 536 | |
| Journal | Lexis: Journal of English Lexicology |
| Journal citation | 3 |
| ISSN | 1951-6215 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Open Editions |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY-SA 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4000/12izg |
| Web address (URL) | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/8693 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 17 Oct 2024 |