The Multilingual Origins Of Standard English
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author | : Laura Wright |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110687545 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521029694 |
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This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
The Origins and Development of the English Language
Author | : Thomas Pyles |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046427137 |
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Multilingualism and History
Author | : Aneta Pavlenko |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009236256 |
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Shattering the cliché 'our world is more multilingual than ever before', this book offers the first comprehensive history of our multilingual past.
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author | : Laura Wright |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110687576 |
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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,John Algeo |
Publsiher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015000574213 |
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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.
Origins of the English Language a Social and Linguistic History
Author | : Joseph M. Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020749050 |
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Provides a history of the English language.
Multilingual Practices in Language History
Author | : Päivi Pahta,Janne Skaffari,Laura Wright |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781501504945 |
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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.