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Introduction

From the book The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

  • Laura Wright
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110687545-001
© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

Chapters in this book (23)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part 1: The orthodox version
Introduction
1. A critical look at previous accounts of the standardisation of English
2. The ‘vernacularisation’ and ‘standardisation’ of local administrative writing in late and post-medieval England
3. The linguistic character of manuscripts attributed to the Beryn Scribe: A comparative study
4. Spelling practices in late Middle English medical prose: A quantitative analysis
5. Standardisation, exemplars, and the Auchinleck manuscript
6. Bristol <th>, <þ> and <y>: The North-South divide revisited, 1400–1700
7. <th> versus <þ>: Latin-based influences and social awareness in the Paston letters
8. Early mass communication as a standardizing influence? The case of the Book of Common Prayer
Part 2: The revised version
9. Abbreviations and standardisation in the Polychronicon: Latin to English and manuscript to print
10. William Worcester’s Itineraria: mixed-language notes of a medieval traveller
11. The relationship of borrowing from French and Latin in the Middle English period with the development of the lexicon of Standard English: Some observations and a lot of questions
12. The role of multilingualism in the emergence of a technical register in the Middle English period
13. More sugar and spice: Revisiting medieval Italian influence on the mercantile lexis of England
14. -mannus makyth man(n)? Latin as an indirect source for English lexical history
15. Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters
16. A comparison of some French and English nominal suffixes in early English correspondence (1420–1681)
17. Textual standardisation of legal Scots vis a vis Latin
18. Rising living standards, the demise of Anglo-Norman and mixed-language writing, and standard English
Index
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