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- Title
Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth's thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English.
- Authors
Sayers, William
- Abstract
Walter of Bibbesworth's late thirteenth-century versified treatise on French vocabulary relevant to the management of estates in Britain has the first extensive list of animal vocalizations in a European vernacular. Many of the Anglo-Norman French names for animals and their sounds are glossed in Middle English, inviting both diachronic and synchronic views of the capacity of these languages for onomatopoetic formation and reflection on the interest of these social and linguistic communities in zoosemiotics.
- Subjects
ANIMAL sound production; FRENCH vocabulary; ONOMATOPOEIA; BIOSEMIOTICS; DOMESTIC animals; MIDDLE Ages
- Publication
Sign Systems Studies, 2009, Vol 37, Issue 3-4, p525
- ISSN
1406-4243
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08