33.1791, Books: Standardising English Spelling: Condorelli

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:43:52
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Standardising English Spelling: Condorelli

 


Title: Standardising English Spelling 
Subtitle: The Role of Printing in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century Graphemic
Developments 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/standardising-english-spelling-role-printing-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-graphemic-developments?format=HB 


Author: Marco Condorelli

Hardback: ISBN:  9781009098144 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009098144 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009098144 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of
printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English.
This pioneering book explores new avenues of investigation into spelling
development by looking at the Early Modern English period, when irregular
features across graphemes became standardised. It traces the development of
the English spelling system through a number of 'competing' standards, raising
questions about the meaning of 'standardisation'. It introduces a new model
for the analysis of large-scale graphemic developments from a diachronic
perspective, and provides a new empirical method geared specifically to the
study of spelling standardisation between the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. The method is applied to four interconnected case studies, focusing
on the standardisation of positional spellings, i and y, etymological spelling
and vowel diacritic spelling. This book is essential reading for researchers
of writing systems and the history of English.
 



1. Introduction; Part I. Context: 2. Theoretical framework; 3. Pragmatic
framework; Part II. Empirical method: 4. Corpus material; 5. Rationale; 6.
Foundational explorations; Part III. Case Studies: 7. The standardisation of
positional spellings; 8. The standardisation of i and y; 9. The
standardisation of etymological spelling; 10. The standardisation of vowel
diacritic spelling; 11. Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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