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Author : Linda Pillière,Wilfrid Andrieu,Valérie Kerfelec,Diana Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107191051
Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English.
Author : Marco Condorelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009098144
With a particular focus on the Early Modern English period, this book explores the standardisation of English spelling.
Author : Amy J. Devitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521024048
Professor Devitt offers a new view of the linguistic process of standardization, the movement of specific language features towards uniformity. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical data, she examines the way in which linguistic conformity develops out of variation, and the textual and social factors that influence this process. After defining and clarifying the general theoretical issues involved, the author takes as a specific case study the standardization of written English in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows that standardization is a gradual process, that it occurs at significantly different rates and times in different genres, that it encompasses periods of great variation, and that it occurs concurrently with sociopolitical shifts. The interrelationship of linguistic features, genres, and social pressures shape the nature and direction of standardization.
Author : Richard Hogg,David Denison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139451291
The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521029694
This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
Author : Michael Singh,Peter Kell,Ambigapathy Pandian
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055110194
Aimed at those who teach English to speakers of other languages, this volume considers English as an increasingly global language that rules both business and cyberspace. It considers as well the causes for concern as English is turned into a commercial product--its role in the death of other languages and in the political project of creating an integrated global economy. The authors (who are associated with the U. of Melbourne and U. Sains Malaysia) write that their goal is to call for "paradigmatic innovations in English language teaching, new frames of reference for reinventing the project of globalizing English that situate it within a perspective of risk analysis and make use of "multivocal Englishes" to help sustain the biolinguistic diversity of humanity." Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001227880O
Author : John H. Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780813148465
Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. 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. In these essays Fisher chronicles his gradual realization that Standard English was not a popular evolution at all but was the direct result of political decisions made by the Lancastrian administrations of Henry IV and Henry V. To achieve standardization and acceptance of the vernacular, these kings turned to their Chancery scribes, who were responsible for writing and copying legal and royal documents. Chaucer, a relative of the king, began to be labeled by the government as a master of the language, and it was Henry V who inspired the fifteenth-century tradition of citing Chaucer as the "maker" of English. An even more important link between language development and government practice is the fact that Chaucer himself composed in the English of the Chancery scribes. Fisher discusses the development of Chancery practices, royal involvement in promoting use of the vernacular, Chaucer's use of English, Caxton's use of Chancery Standard, and the nineteenth-century phenomenon of a standard, or "received," pronunciation of English. This engaging and clearly written work will change the way scholars understand the development of English and think about the intentional shaping of our language.
Author : John Addison Clement
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044028790442
Author : Dan McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781000298406
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. This revised second edition of History of English includes: ❑ a comprehensive introduction to the history of English covering the origins of English, the change from Old to Middle English, and the influence of other languages on English; ❑ increased coverage of key issues, such as the standardisation of English; ❑ a wider range of activities, plus answers to exercises; ❑ new readings of well-known authors such as Manfred Krug, Colette Moore, Merja Stenroos and David Crystal; ❑ a timeline of important external events in the history of English. Structured to reflect the chronological development of the English language, History of English describes and explains the changes in the language over a span of 1,500 years, covering all aspects from phonology and grammar, to register and discourse. In doing so, it incorporates examples from a wide variety of texts and provides an interactive and structured textbook that will be essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics.
Author : Juan C. Sager,David Dungworth,Peter F. McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000587004
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : English language
ISBN : OSU:32435030194864
Author : R. S. Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119771462
Author : Bill Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002741315
Much of Anglo-Saxon life followed a traditional pattern, of custom, and of dependence on kin-groups for land, support and security. The Viking incursions of the ninth century and the reconquest of the north that followed both disturbed this pattern and led to a new emphasis on centralized power and law, with royal and ecclesiastical officials prominent as arbitrators and settlers of disputes. The diversity and development of early English law is sampled here by selecting several law-codes to be read in translation - that of Ethelbert of Kent, being the first to be issued in England, Alfred the Great's, the most clearly thought-out of all, and short codes from the reigns of Edmund and Ethelred the Unready.
Author : Carmela Nocera Avila,Nicola Pantaleo,D. Pezzini
Publisher : Schena Editore
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032842067