The Multilingual Origins of Standard English - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] - - Books - De Gruyter - 9783110995107 - July 18, 2022
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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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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.

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Released July 18, 2022
ISBN13 9783110995107
Publishers De Gruyter
Pages 545
Dimensions 154 × 234 × 36 mm   ·   846 g
Language German  
Editor Wright, Laura

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