![]() He was previously Professor of Latin at the Universities of Manchester and Reading. A D A M S is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of linguistic change, and the part played by language choice and language switching in conveying a sense of identity. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. ![]() Bilingualism has become since the s one of the main themes of sociolinguistics, but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. ![]()
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