Language and Sociolinguistic Studies

  • Bäuml, Franz H.  “Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy.”Speculum 55 (1980): 237-65.
  • Berndt, Rolf. “The Linguistic Situation in England from the Norman Conquest to the Loss of Normandy (1066-1204).”  Approaches to Historical Linguistics: An Anthology, ed. Roger Lass. New York: 1969. 369-81.
  • —.”The Period of the Final Decline of French in Medieval England (Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries).” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20 (1972): 341-69.
  • Butterfield, Ardis.  The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Campbell, Kimberlee. “Speaking the Other: Constructing Frenchness in Medieval England.” French Global: A New Approach to Literary History.  Ed. Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 179-92.
  • Clark, Cecily. “Women’s Names in Post-Conquest England: Observations and Speculations.”Speculum 53 (1978): 223-51.
  • Crane, Susan. “Social Aspects of Bilingualism in the Thirteenth Century.” Thirteenth Century England 6 (1997): 103-116.
  • Dodd, Gwilym. “The Rise of English, the Decline of French: Supplications to the English Crown, c. 1420-1450.” Speculum 86 (2011): 117-150.
  • Fenster, Thelma.  “French Language.”  An Encyclopaedia of Medieval France.  Ed. W.W. Kibler.  New York: Garland, 1995.  370-74.
  • Frankis, John. “The Social Context of Vernacular Writing in Thirteenth Century England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts.” Thirteenth-Century England 1 (1986): 175-184.
  • Hyams, Paul. “Thinking English Law in French: The Angevins and the Common Law.” Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White.  Ed. Belle S. Tuten and Tracey L. Billado.   Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 175-96.
  • Ingham, Richard, ed. The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts. York: York Medieval Press, 2010.
  • Kibbee, Douglas A. “Historical Perspectives on the Place of Anglo-Norman in the History of the French Language.” French Studies 54 (2000): 137-53.
  • —. For to Speke French Trewely: The French Language in England 1000-1600: Description and Instruction. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991.
  • Lodge, R.A. French: From Dialect to Standard. London: Routledge, 1993.
  • —. “Language Attitudes and Linguistic Norms in France and England in the Thirteenth Century,” Thirteenth Century England 4 (1991): 73-83.
  • Porter, David W. “The Earliest Texts with English and French,” Anglo-Saxon England(1999): 87-110.
  • Romaine, Suzanne. Bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
  • Rothwell, W. “The ‘Faus franceis d’Angleterre’: Later Anglo-Norman.” Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays.  London: ANTS OP 2, 1993. 309-26.
  • —. “The Role of French in Thirteenth-Century England.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 58 (1975): 445-66.
  • —.”The Teaching of French in Medieval England.” Modern Language Review 63 (1968): 37-46.
  • [For a fuller list of Rothwell’s publications on Anglo-Norman lexis and the French of England, see De Mot en mot: Aspects of Medieval Linguistics: Essays in Honour of W.R. Rothwell.  Ed. Stewart Gregory and D.A. Trotter.  Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997.]
  • Short, Ian. “Anglice loqui nesciunt Cultura Neolatina 69 (2009): 245-62. : monoglots in Anglo-Norman England.”
  • ––.”L’Anglo-normand au siècle de Chaucer : un regain de statistiques.”  Le Plurilinguisme au Moyen Age : Orient – Occident.  Ed. Claire Kappler & Suzanne Thiolier-Méjean. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009. 67-77.
  • —. “On Bilingualism in Anglo-Norman England.” Romanische Philologie 33 (1979-80): 467-79.
  • —. “Tam Angli Quam Franci: Self-Definition in Anglo-Norman England.” Anglo-Norman Studies
  • Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. University Park: Penn State Press, 2005.
  • Trotter, David. “Language Contact and Lexicography: The Case of Anglo-Norman.” The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense University, November 1994.  Ed. Hans R.Nielsen and Lene Schøsler, Odense: Odense University Press, 1996. 21-39. Trenchant and concise account of the status of Anglo-Norman, discussion of appropriate paradigms for Anglo-Norman and for relating it to other languages in Britain and elsewhere.
  • —. ed.  Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain. Cambridge: Brewer, 2000.
  • Wilson, R.M. “English and French in England 1100-1300.” History 28 (1943): 37-60.
  • Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, ed., with Carolyn Collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter, and David Trotter. Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c.1100 – c.1500.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 2009.