Aelfred mec heht gewyrcan: sociolinguistic concepts in the study of Alfredian English
Olga Timofeeva
This study reconstructs the Alfredian network as consisting of twelve actors. is termed a coalition , within which cluster Mercian actors further hypothesised. Historical sources and charter evidence suggest that scribes worked for West Saxon kings may even have taken part in establishment proto-chancery at royal court. writing office can be conjectured to ties with described community practice . The whole sociolinguistic reconstruction supported by three case studies: Angelcynn ‘the English people’ here ‘band, troop’ historical-political genres, gretan freondlice epistolary genres. diffusion these norms across time, place genres linked chancery its distribution channels, well diachronic sustainability linguistic practices professional discourse communities their archives.
English Language and Linguistics