The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England - Couverture souple

Schaefer, Ursula

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631551061 ISBN 13 : 9783631551066

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2006

Synopsis

Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernaculars massively gained ground in writing throughout Western Europe. They soon underwent regularization and eventually standardization. In England, however, the situation was quite different from that of the continent : well into the 14th century the literate space was filled mainly by Latin and French. For a long time Chaucer has been regarded as having brought about the ‘victory' of English. But recent research calls for a broader perspective including the work of linguists as well as literary and cultural historians. Such a new perspective helps to assess that English was not reestablished by a poet hero and standardized by a king. Instead we need to consider that various forces were at work.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Editor : Ursula Schaefer is Professor of English Linguistics at the Technische Universität Dresden. Her main publications are on medieval English literature and on questions of the transition from orality to literacy. At present she is leading the research project Institutionalization of the Vernacular : Textualization and Standardization of Late Medieval English within the Dresden Sonderforschungsbereich 537 – Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit (‘Institutionality and Historicity') sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631551061
• ISBN 13: 9783631551066
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne