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The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts Book

The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts, This book traces the development of Standard English, revealing a complex and intriguing history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. Leading scholars offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detail, The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts has a rating of 3.5 stars
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The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts, This book traces the development of Standard English, revealing a complex and intriguing history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. Leading scholars offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detail, The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
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  • The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts
  • Written by author Laura Wright
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, November 2006
  • This book traces the development of Standard English, revealing a complex and intriguing history that challenges the usual textbook accounts. Leading scholars offer a wide-ranging analysis, from theoretical discussions of the origin of dialects, to detail
  • This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Historical description and the ideology of the standard language11
2Mythical strands in the ideology of prescriptivism29
3Rats, bats, sparrows and dogs: biology, linguistics and the nature of Standard English49
4Salience, stigma and standard57
5The ideology of the standard and the development of Extraterritorial Englishes73
6Metropolitan values: migration, mobility and cultural norms, London 1100-170093
7Standardisation and the language of early statutes117
8Scientific language and spelling standardisation 1375-1550131
9Change from above or below? Mapping the loci of linguistic change in the history of Scottish English155
10Adjective comparison and standardisation processes in American and British English from 1620 to the present171
11The Spectator, the politics of social networks, and language standardisation in eighteenth-century England195
12A branching path: low vowel lengthening and its friends in the emerging standard219
Index230


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