Laura Wright (ed.)

The Development of Standard English, 1300 1800

Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
Herausgeber: Aarts, Bas; Wright, Laura; Kyt&148, Merja

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the development of Standard English, revealing a complex and intriguing history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. Leading scholars offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detailed descriptions of the history of individual Standard English features. Ranging from Middle English to the Modern English period, the volume concludes that Standard English had no one single ancestor dialect, but is the cumulative result of generations of authoritative writing from many text types.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521029698
• ISBN-10: 0521029694
• Artikelnr.: 21158486

Inhaltsangabe

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 Kytö and 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.