%0 Journal Article
%T Il Codice Aragonese (1458¨C1460): la distribuzione delle tre lingue napoletana, catalana e latina [The Codice Aragonese (1458-1460): the distribution of the three languages Neapolitan, Catalan and Latin]
%A Venetz
%A Gabriela H.
%J Zeitschrift f¨¹r Katalanistik
%D 2009
%I Alber-Ludwigs-Universit?t
%X This article is devoted to a 15th century¡¯s codex from Naples under the Catalan-Aragonese Crown of King Ferran. To a sociocultural background I investigate the function of the three varieties involved (Catalan, Neapolitan and Latin) in general and as preferred correspondence languages. Furthermore, and in comparison to a hypothesis by the editor Armand-Adolphe Messer, I show that the use of Catalan and Neapolitan depends on the linguistic knowledge of the receiver and, in the case of bilingual receivers, on the author¡¯s intention. By comparing the two varieties we observe a certain tendency to apply the Neapolitan language to objective messages while Catalan tends to be used for more personal or ¡®urgent¡¯ communications.
%K Catalan
%K Neapolitan
%K Naples
%K Catalan-Aragonese Crown
%K chancellery
%K sociolinguistics
%K trilingualism
%U http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/pusch/zfk/22/15_Venetz.pdf