Cover -- Table of Contents -- Claudia Lange, Beatrix Weber and Göran Wolf (Gießen/Dresden): Introduction -- List of Publications - Ursula Schaefer -- Holger Kuße (Technische Universität Dresden): Argumente für die Schrift und die Sprache: Bemerkungen zur "Vita Konstantin-Kyrills" und zu Chrabars "Über die Buchstaben" -- Tom Shippey (Winchester): The Well-Spoken Saint: Speech and Script in the Old English Andreas -- Göran Wolf (Technische Universität Dresden): Þe we stæfcræftere hatan cunnon: Reflections on Ælfric's Grammatical Terminology -- Claudia Aurich (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): Varying Proverb Structure and the Communicative Space in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century England -- Thomas Honegger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Communicative Spaces, Communicating Lovers Declarations of Love in Marie de France's Lanval and its English Adaptations -- Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University): Sense Extension through English-French Language Contact in Medieval England: The Case of as -- Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität Berlin): The Exigencies of 'Latyn Corrupt': Linguistic Change and Historical Consciousness in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale" -- Lucia Kornexl (Universität Rostock): "Ande sey me þis in clerycall manere!" The Elementary Latin Classroom in Late Medieval England as a Communicative Space -- Katie Long and Rainer Holtei (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Communicative Space in "The Owl and the Nightingale": The Communication of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Communication -- Ulrike Schenk (Berlin): The Dream Scene in Havelok the Dane: An Epitome of Literary Creativity in the Early Middle English Romance Tradition -- David Trotter (Aberystwyth): "Saunz desbriser de hay ou de clos": clos(e) in Anglo-French and in English.

Beatrix Weber (Technische Universität Dresden): The Trilingual Register of Legal and Administrative Discourse in Late Medieval England -- Laura Wright (University of Cambridge): The Hammond Scribe: His Dialect, His Paper, and Folios 133-155 of Trinity College Cambridge MS 0.3.11 -- Karl Maroldt (Berlin): The Phonetic and Phonological Motivation of the "Great Vowel Shift" -- Christian Prunitsch (Technische Universität Dresden): Zum Prestige des Polnischen im Kommunikationsraum Polen-Litauen des 16. Jahrhunderts -- Maria Lieber und Gesine Seymer (Technische Universität Dresden): Italienisches im englischen Wortschatz des vor-Elisabethanischen Zeitalters -- Manfred Markus (Universität Innsbruck): "Sirrah" in Shakespeare's Plays and beyond: Its Function, Variants and Etymology (from a Corpus-Linguistic Point of View) -- Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Universiteit Leiden): "For, alas! there was not affection between us": Letters from Alexander and James Boswell to Abraham Gronovius -- Haruko Momma (New York University): John Mitchell Kemble and Jacob Grimm: A Cross-national Communication -- Hildegard L. C. Tristram (Freiburg) and Christina Bismark (Aberystwyth): On the Demise of Morphological Complexity in English and in the Insular Celtic Languages - A Research Report -- Claudia Lange (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen): Text Types, Language Change, and Historical Corpus Linguistics -- Konrad Ehlich (Berlin/München): Lingua franca - Fakten und Fiktionen -- Christian Mair (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Why the World is Becoming More Monolingual and More Multilingual at the Same Time -- Peter Koch (Tübingen) and Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich): Language of Immediacy - Language of Distance: Orality and Literacy from the Perspective of Language Theory and Linguistic History.