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The Development of standard English, 1300-1800 : theories, descriptions, conflicts

Title
The Development of standard English, 1300-1800 : theories, descriptions, conflicts / edited by Laura Wright.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Wright, Laura.
Description
xi, 236 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in English language
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Spectator, the politics of social networks, and language standardisation in eighteenth-century England / Susan Fitzmaurice -- Branching path : low vowel lengthening and its friends in the emerging standard / Roger Lass.
Call Number
JFE 01-271
ISBN
0521771145
LCCN
99087473
OCLC
43083332
Title
The Development of standard English, 1300-1800 : theories, descriptions, conflicts / edited by Laura Wright.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series
Studies in English language
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Wright, Laura.
Research Call Number
JFE 01-271
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