The development of standard English, 1300-1800 : theories, descriptions, conflicts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Studies in English language.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical description and the ideology of the standard language / Jim Milroy
- Mythical strands in the ideology of prescriptivism / Richard J. Watts
- Rats, bats, sparrows and dogs : biology, linguistics and the nature of Standard English / Jonathan Hope
- Salience, stigma and standard / Raymond Hickey
- Ideology of the standard and the development of Extraterritorial Englishes / Gabriella Mazzon
- Metropolitan values : migration, mobility and cultural norms, London 1100-1700 / Derek Keene
- Standardisation and the language of early statutes / Matti Rissanen
- Scientific language and spelling standardisation 1375-1550 / Irma Taavitsainen
- Change from above or below? Mapping the loci of linguistic change in the history of Scottish English / Anneli Meurman-Solin
- Adjective comparison and standardisation processes in American and British English from 1620 to the present / Merja Kytö and Suzanne Romaine
- The Spectator, the politics of social networks, and language standardisation in eighteenth-century England / Susan Fitzmaurice
- A branching path : low vowel lengthening and its friends in the emerging standard / Roger Lass.