UID:
almahu_9947414272902882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511551758 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Studies in English language
Content:
There are many questions yet to be answered about how Standard English came into existence. The claim that it developed from a Central Midlands dialect propagated by clerks in the Chancery, the medieval writing office of the king, is one explanation that has dominated textbooks to date. This book reopens the debate about the origins of Standard English, challenging earlier accounts and revealing a far more complex and intriguing history. An international team of fourteen specialists offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detailed descriptions of the history of individual Standard English features. The volume ranges from Middle English to the present day, and looks at a variety of text types. It concludes that Standard English had no one single ancestor dialect, but is the cumulative result of generations of authoritative writing from many text types.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Historical description and the ideology of the standard language /
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Mythical strands in the ideology of prescriptivism /
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Rats, bats, sparrows and dogs : biology, linguistics and the nature of Standard English /
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Salience, stigma and standard /
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Ideology of the standard and the development of Extraterritorial Englishes /
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Metropolitan values : migration, mobility and cultural norms, London 1100-1700 /
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Standardisation and the language of early statutes /
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Scientific language and spelling standardisation 1375-1550 /
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Change from above or below? Mapping the loci of linguistic change in the history of Scottish English /
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Adjective comparison and standardisation processes in American and British English from 1620 to the present /
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Spectator, the politics of social networks, and language standardisation in eighteenth-century England /
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Branching path : low vowel lengthening and its friends in the emerging standard /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521771146
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551758
