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Auteur(s) : Watts, Richard James (1943-....)
Titre(s) : Language myths and the history of English [Texte imprimé] / Richard J. Watts
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, c2011
Description matérielle : xiv, 338 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Comprend : 1. Metaphors, myths, ideologies and archives. ; Defining myths ; Conceptual metaphors
and myths ; Language myths and conceptual metaphors ; Foucault's understanding of
discourse ; Discourse archives ; Myths are the "stuff that ideologies are made on"
; The structure of the book ; 2. Establishing a linguistic pedigree. ; The fire
at Ashburnham House ; The myth of the longevity of English ; Tracing the growth
of interest in the Beowulf manuscript ; The dating of Beowulf ; Kiernan's arguments
; Sociolinguistic arguments in favour of Danelaw provenance for Beowulf ; Switching
discourse archives ; 3. Breaking the unbroken tradition. ; LInking two myths ;
Metapragmatic and metadiscursive linguistic expressions and their significance in
inscribed orality ; The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and the archive they instantiated
; The breakdown of the archive and inscribed orality ; The disappearance of the
ASC: the end of discourse archive ; 4. The construction of a modern myth: Middle
English as a creole. ; The creolisation hypothesis ; The discussion thread "Is English
a creole?" ; The "Middle English is a creole" debate in the academic literature ;
All language is language in contact ; Simplification processes not resulting in creole
; Creolisation or no creolisation? ; 5. Barbarians and others. ; The nation-state
and the notion of Kultursprache ; Language versus a language versus the language
; The "other" chronicle tradition ; Myths in the Polychronicon ; Linking up and
extending the myths ; The central nexus of language myths ; 6. The myth of "greatness."
; Introduction ; Dating the GVS ; A reappaisal of research work on an elusive phenomenon
; GVS disputes ; Challenging the GVS ; Sociolinguistic aspects of the GVS ; The
myths of greatness reconsidered --
7. Reinterpreting Swift's A proposal for correcting, improving an ascertaining the
English tongue: challenging an embryonic modern myth. ; Potential new myths ; THe
"ideology of the standard language" and the complaint tradtion ; Swift's Proposal
as the beginning of a complaint tradition ; Contextualising the Proposal sociohistorically
; Alternative readings of Swifts's Proposal ; Swift and after ; 8. Polishing the
myths: the commercial side of politeness. ; The obsession with politeness ; The
origins of eighteenth-century politeness ; The honnête homme and Descarte's physiological
metaphor ; Gentrifying philosophy ; Commercialising the myth of the polite language
; Postscript ; 9. Challenging the hegemony of standard English. ; "Polite English"
and social stratification at the end of the eighteenth century ; Radicals, revolutionaries
and language ; Language and working-class movements at the beginning of the nineteenth
century ; William Hone, Peterloo and the Chartist movement ; From the legitimate
language to the standard language ; 10.Transforming myth to save an archive: when
polite becomes educated. ; From homo socialis to homo culturalis ; Language and
politeness, language and "educatedeness" ; Comprehensive schools and the teaching
of standard English ; Planning the reintroduction of grammar into the National Curriculum
; John Honey and the notion of educadeness ; What is standard English? ; 11. Commodifying
English and constructing a new myth. ; The emergence of a modern myth ; English-"the
language of the world"? ; The commodificaton of English ; The price of English in
Switzerland ; Problems in the assumption that English is the global language ; 12.
Myths, ideologies of English and funnel view of the history of English. ; From conceptual
metaphors to discourse archives: the function of myth ; The funnel view of history
of English ; Myths as stories ; Establishing the "superiority" of English ; LInguistic
homgeneity versus linguistic heterogeneity.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Sujet(s) : Anglais (langue) -- Histoire
Anglais (langue) -- Société
Sociolinguistique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780195327601 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0195327608 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780195327618
(pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0195327616 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb424184371
Notice n° :
FRBNF42418437
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