Imagining Medieval English (eBook, ePUB)

Language Structures and Theories, 500-1500
Redaktion: Machan, Tim William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualizations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500, and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316461327
• Artikelnr.: 53072917

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The metaphysics of medieval English Tim William
Machan; Part II. Organizing Ideas: 2. What was medieval English? Seth
Lerer; 3. The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form
and practices of literacy Jeremy Smith; 4. Snakes, ladders, and standard
language Tim William Machan; Part III. The Continuities of Language: 5.
'þæt is on englisc': performing multilingualism in Anglo-Saxon England
Christopher M. Cain; 6. Regional language and culture: the geography of
Middle English linguistic variation Merja Stenroos; 7. The linguistic
repertoire of medieval England, 1100¿1500 Ad Putter; Part IV. The
Discontinuities of English: 8. The nature of material evidence Simon
Horobin; 9. Sifting through the evidence: principles and pitfalls Cynthia
L. Allen; 10. Everyday English in late medieval England Colette Moore; 11.
Imagining the literary in medieval English Andrew Galloway; Part V.
Retrospection: 12. 'The most excellent creatures are not ever born
perfect': early modern attitudes to Middle English Helen Cooper; 13. Ideas
of medieval English in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries David
Matthews; Bibliography.