28.5209, Books: The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol: Gordon

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:59:55
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol: Gordon

 


Title: The Urban Vernacular of Late Medieval and Renaissance Bristol 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-urban-vernacular-of-late-medieval-and-renaissance-bristol 


Author: Moragh Sanne Gordon

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932595 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

How do we define what a standard language is? How do standard languages
develop? These questions lie at the heart of the project Emerging Standards:
Urbanisation and the Emergence of Standard English, c.1400-1700.

By focusing on the emergence of written Standard English, this project aims to
identify the processes that are involved in the development of standard
languages. Traditional accounts of the development of written Standard English
tend to trace its beginnings back to a single time and place in history, i.e.
the political and economic importance of the metropolis and the prestige that
was associated with it are frequently used as explanatory factors for the
dissemination and nation-wide acceptance of a London-based Standard variety.
These claims are, however, often based on small sets of data or an imprecise
interpretation of textual history. What is more, other factors such as the
role of language and dialect contact through trade and migration, the
development of literacy and different literacy practices, text type
conventions, as well as the role of other prominent urban centres have to date
often been marginalised.

Based on a newly compiled corpus of civic records and personal writings from
Bristol during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, this dissertation
sheds new light on supra-localisation processes, notably linked to factors
such as literacy, migration and text types. The study is concerned with the
development of three different linguistic features from a historical
sociolinguistic angle and, by doing so, provides a piece to the
standardisation puzzle.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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