...m Latin after the end of the Roman Empire the creation of English through cultural mixing and political changes the reasons hy the European national languages gre in importance in medieval and post-medieval times compared ith Latin. That quick summary shos that the earlier and larger part is not a short history of languages in general, but of European languages. Its true that accidents of history, such as colonisation and trade, have given these languages - in particular English - an importance ell above their geographical or cultural eight the reasons hy are explored in a later chapter. But in this respect, Tore Jansons book is narroer in focus than John Mchorters. To later chapters move into other areas. The first focuses on one ay that ne languages appear through pidgins and creoles. The second looks at the cultural and political factors that cause them to vanish. The last to chapters sho ho it is that English has become so dominant, especially as a lingua franca, and hat the language landscape might look like at various points in the future though a riter has to be especially brave to feel able to say anything useful about a time to million years hence!. ithin its comparatively limited geographical scope, this is a useful overvie of the development and transformation of languages through cultural and political upheavals over time. Partea2This bibliography as compiled from responses on HEL-L, an electronic discussion group on the history of English. Most of the entries come from Clinton Atchley Amsler, Mark. From Standard Latin to Standard English. Language Variation in North American English Research and Teaching. Ed. ayne A. Gloka and Donald M. Lance. Ne Yourk MLA, 1993. Cable, Thomas. Rise of ritten Standard English. The Emergence of National Languages. Ed. Aldo Scaglione. Ravenna Longo, 1984. Christianson, C. Paul. Chancery Standard and the Records of Old London Bridge. Tennnessee Studies in Literature 31 1989 82-112. Croley, Tony. Standard English and the Politics of Language. Urbana U of Illinois P, 1988. Dobson, E.J. Early Modern Standard English. Approaches to English Historical Linguistics An Anthology. Ed. Roger Lass. Ne York Holt, Rinehart and inston, 1969. Dykema, Karl . Ho Fast Is Standard English Changing American Speech 31.2 1956 89-95. Fisher, John H. Chancery and the Emergence of Standard ritten English in the Fifteenth Century. Speculum 52.4 1977 870-99. ---. Chancery Standard and Modern ritten English. Journal of the Society of Archivists 6 1979 136-44. ---. The Emergence of Standard English. Lexington Kentucky UP, 1996. Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher. AN Anthology of Chancery English. Knoxville U of Tennessee P, 1984. Gorlach, Manfred. Ne Studies in the History of English. Heidelberg Carl inter, 1995. ---. Studies in the History of the English Language. Heidelberg Carl inter, 1990. Leonard, Sterling Andrus. The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700-1800. Ne York Russell and Russelll, 1962. Lucas, Peter J. Toards a Standard ritten English Continuity and Change in the Orthographic Usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. 1393-1464. English Historical Linguistics 1992. Ed. Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Furster, and Juan Jose Calvo. Amsterdam Benjamins, 1994. 1-104. Poussa, Patricia. The Evolution of Early Standard English The Creolization Hypothesis. Studie Anglica Posnaniensia 14 1982 69-85. richardson, Malcolm. Henry V, the English Chancery, and Chancery English. Speculum 55 1980 726-50. Sandved, Arthur O. The Rise of Standard English. Papers from the First Nordic Conference for English Studies. Ed. Stig Johannson. Oslo n.p., 1981. 398-404. Shaklee, Margaret. The Rise of Standard English. Standards and Dialects in English. Ed. Timothey Shopen and Joseph M. illiams. Cambridge, MA inthrop, 1980. 33-62. right, Laura. On the riting of the History of Standard English. English Historical Linguistics 1992. Ed. Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Furster, and Juan Jose Calvo. Amsterdam Benjamins, 1994. 105-15. Atchely notes For necomers, John Fisher and his argument for Chancery English as the motivating force behind the rise of standard English is still the one to read first. illiam Labovs The Study of Non Standard English James Sledd, Product in Process From Ambiguities of Standard English to Issues that Divide Us, English Journal Dec. 1969 1307-16 1329 James Sledd, Product in Process From Ambiguities of Standard English to Issues that Divide Us, sCollege Englishs 50 1988 168-176. James Milroy and Leslie Milroy, Standard English and the complaint tradition, in their book sAuthority in Language Investigating language prescription and standardisations London Routledge Keegan Paul, 1983. David L. Shores Carole P. Hines, eds. sPapers in Language Variation SAMLA-ADS Collections University of Alabama PressPartea3Purpose and Objectives In Europe the biennial conferences knon as ICEHL International Conference on English Historical Linguistics have served the field of English Language Studies ell, giving the field both focus and recognition that it almost certainly ould not have achieved otherise. These conferences have taken place at leading English Language research centers over the past tenty years, each conference organized and managed by the faculty of the conference site Durham, Odense, Sheffield, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Helsinki, Valencia, Edinburgh, Poznan, Manchester. In North America, despite the presence of many major scholars in the field, Historical English Linguistics the History of the English Language told in the light of contemporary linguistic sophistication has not emerged ith the same kind of recognizable personality. Many scholars ho do this kind of ork are to a significant extent servants also of other fields such as general linguistics, medieval studies, dialectology, applied linguistics, and teacher training. hat e hope to do by organizing SHEL is begin to provide the same kind of focus for English Historical Linguistics in North America as the focus achieved in Europe by the ICEHL series, in North America for Germanic Linguistics by GLAC Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, for American Dialectology by the American Dialect Society, for Social Dialectology by NAVE, and of course for General Linguistics by the LSA. e are not in competition ith any of these series or organizations e believe, hoever, that a eekend meeting dedicated entirely to linguistic issues in the History of English ill be an energizing and useful academic experience. e begin modestly a non-existent budget, no organization, just a conference. Anne Curzan is organizing a pedagogical orshop at SHEL-1, parallel ith the research-oriented sessions, and ill host SHEL-2 in Seattle. A SHEL-3 offer has already emerged a brief organizational meeting may be necessary to plan future events. Featured Speakers Richard Bailey Michigan, Thomas Cable Texas, Anthony Kroch Penn, Elizabeth Traugott Stanford Featured Topic The year 2000 is a good time to take stock in a...
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