Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110687542
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110687542
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110687542
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521771146
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521771146
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110687577
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110687577
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
The Origins and Development of the English Language
Author: Thomas Pyles
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The focus on this 3rd ed., as in the previous, remains on the internal history of English, theoretical implications and purely external history are purposely kept to a minimum. As in the earlier editions, too, the treatment is descriptive and traditional so that students with no prior study of linguistics or of languages will find this text accessible.
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The focus on this 3rd ed., as in the previous, remains on the internal history of English, theoretical implications and purely external history are purposely kept to a minimum. As in the earlier editions, too, the treatment is descriptive and traditional so that students with no prior study of linguistics or of languages will find this text accessible.
The Origins and Development of the English Language
Author: Thomas Pyles
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
ANGLAIS (LANGUE), enseignement
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
ANGLAIS (LANGUE), enseignement
Multilingualism and History
Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009236253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Shattering the cliché 'our world is more multilingual than ever before', this book offers the first comprehensive history of our multilingual past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009236253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Shattering the cliché 'our world is more multilingual than ever before', this book offers the first comprehensive history of our multilingual past.
Multilingual Practices in Language History
Author: Päivi Pahta
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501504940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501504940
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.
Origins of the English Language, a Social and Linguistic History
Author: Joseph M. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Provides a history of the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Provides a history of the English language.
The Emergence of Standard English
Author: John H. Fisher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813171050
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
" Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces."
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813171050
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
" Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces."
Medieval English in a Multilingual Context
Author: Sara M. Pons-Sanz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031309472
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in (sub)disciplines of linguistics including historical linguistics, onomastics, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, code-switching and language contact, and also includes contributions from literary and socio-cultural studies, material culture, and palaeography. The authors focus on the variety of languages in use in medieval Britain, including English, Old Norse, Norn, Dutch, Welsh, French, and Latin, making the argument that understanding the impact of medieval multilingualism on the development of English requires multidisiplinarity and the bringing together of different frameworks in linguistics and cultural studies to achieve more nuanced answers. This book will be of interest to academics and students of historical linguistics and medieval textual culture.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031309472
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in (sub)disciplines of linguistics including historical linguistics, onomastics, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, code-switching and language contact, and also includes contributions from literary and socio-cultural studies, material culture, and palaeography. The authors focus on the variety of languages in use in medieval Britain, including English, Old Norse, Norn, Dutch, Welsh, French, and Latin, making the argument that understanding the impact of medieval multilingualism on the development of English requires multidisiplinarity and the bringing together of different frameworks in linguistics and cultural studies to achieve more nuanced answers. This book will be of interest to academics and students of historical linguistics and medieval textual culture.