Marco Condorelli

Standardising English Spelling (eBook, PDF)

The Role of Printing in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Graphemic Developments

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Produktbeschreibung

With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009103183
• Artikelnr.: 70909335

Autorenporträt

Marco Condorelli completed his Ph.D. in English Language at the University of Central Lancashire. His previous publications include Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500-1800 (editor, Cambridge 2020), and a number of articles which have appeared in, for example, English Language and Linguistics, English Studies and The Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Context: 2. Theoretical framework
3. Pragmatic framework
Part II. Empirical method: 4. Corpus material
5. Rationale
6. Foundational explorations
Part III. Case Studies: 7. The standardisation of positional spellings
8. The standardisation of i and y
9. The standardisation of etymological spelling
10. The standardisation of vowel diacritic spelling
11. Conclusion.