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The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
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Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 3110687518
ISBN-13 : 9783110687514
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Book Synopsis The Multilingual Origins of Standard English by : Laura Wright

Download or read book The Multilingual Origins of Standard English written by Laura Wright and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Part One (the Orthodox Version) the contributors to this volume show how monolingual explanations of the origins of Standard English are incorrect. Part Two (the Revised Version) provides an alternative sociolinguistic, multilingual history, where it is argued that English came to take over the roles, registers and written conventions of Anglo-Norman French, and that standardisation was the result of fourteenth-century socioeconomic shift.


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