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This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels, and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke.
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Matylda W¿odarczyk is University Professor in the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä, Poland. She has worked on the historical (socio-)pragmatics of specialised discourses. She has conducted, with El¿bieta Adamczyk and Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Glasgow) a project devoted to multilingualism in the medieval Greater Poland court oaths and co-authored the eROThA repository (2014-2019).
Jukka Tyrkkö is Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests extend from the Middle Ages to the present day, focusing on a wide range of topics including corpus linguistic methodology, lexis and phraseology, the history of medical writing, multilingualism, historical lexicography, the language of politics and history of the book. He has compiled a number of historical corpora and he develops corpus linguistic software. His recent edited volumes include Historical Dictionaries in their Paratextual Context (edited with R.W. McConchie for Mouton de Gruyter, 2018) and Applications of Pattern-Driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics (edited with Joanna Kopaczyk for John Benjamins, 2018). ORCID: 0000-0001-5251-5338
El¿bieta Adamczyk is Junior Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. Her research interests concentrate on English historical linguistics, especially historical morphology, linguistic variation, comparative Germanic linguistics, historical multilingualism and language contact in medieval Europe. She is the author of a monograph on nominal morphology of early Germanic languages (Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic, John Benjamins, 2018) and a co-author of the eROThA repository.
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This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels, and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke.
