The emergence of standard English /
"In these nine essays Fisher chronicles his gradual realization that Standard English was not a popular evolution at all but was the direct result of political decisions made by the Lancastrian administrations of Henry IV and Henry V - decisions intended to validate their usurpation of the Engl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- A language policy for Lancastrian England
- Chancery and the emergence of standard written english
- European chancelleries and the rise of standard languages
- Animadversions on the text of Chaucer
- Chaucer's french: a metalinguistic inquiry
- Piers Plowman and chancery tradition
- Caxton and chancery english
- The history of received pronunciation.