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The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts

by Laura Wright
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts

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This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.

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"[It is] and important book [which] demonstrates for all linguists how an insightful observation by a young scholar can question basic assumptions and fondly held beliefs...Laura Wright (of Cambridge University) deserves particular thanks for having riased a major question and then pouring her considerable energy into the conferences and this volume that flows for them." Language in Society

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Leading scholars trace the development of Standard English, revealing a complex history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. The volume demonstrates that Standard English has no one single ancestor dialect, but is the cumulative result of generations of authoritative writing from many text types.

Table of Contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Laura Wright; Part I. Theory and Methodology: Approaches to Studying the Standardisation of English: 1. Historical description and the ideology of the standard language Jim Milroy; 2. Mythical strands in the ideology of prescriptivism Richard J. Watts; 3. Rats, bats, sparrows and dogs: biology, linguistics and the nature of Standard English Jonathan Hope; 4. Salience, stigma and standard Raymond Hickey; 5. The ideology of the standard and the development of Extraterritorial Englishes Gabriella Mazzon; 6. Metropolitan values: migration, mobility and cultural norms, London 1100-1700 Derek Keene; Part II. Processes of the Standardisation of English: 7. Standardisation and the language of early statutes Matti Rissanen; 8. Scientific language and spelling standardisation 1375-1550 Irma Taavitsainen; 9. Change from above or below? Mapping the loci of linguistic change in the history of Scottish English Anneli Meurman-Solin; 10. Adjective comparison and standardisation processes in American and British English from 1620 to the present Merja Kytöand Suzanne Romaine; 11. The Spectator, the politics of social networks, and language standardisation in eighteenth-century England Susan Fitzmaurice; 12. A branching path: low vowel lengthening and its friends in the emerging standard Roger Lass; Index.


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ISBN:
9780521771146
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/14/2000
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Series info:
Studies in English Language
Language:
English
Pages:
252
Height:
.69IN
Width:
6.00IN
Thickness:
.68 in.
LCCN:
99087473
Series:
Studies in English Language
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
2001
Series Volume:
no. 59
UPC Code:
2800521771148
Author:
Charles F. Meyer
Author:
Merja Kyt
Editor:
John Algeo
Author:
Bas Aarts
Editor:
Laura Wright
Author:
Susan Fitzmaurice
Author:
John Algeo
Author:
Richard Hogg
Subject:
History
Subject:
English language -- History.
Subject:
English language -- Standardization.
Subject:
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
Subject:
English language

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