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Accent, Dialect & Isoglosses
English Present & Future (Definition…
Accent, Dialect & Isoglosses
English Present & Future
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:red_flag: The variety of English normally used in writing, and is the variety taught to non-native learners.
:red_flag: The variety associated with the education system in all English speaking countries
:red_flag: Agreed to have nothing to do with pronunciation. Britain received pronunciation (RP) is a purely social accent.
:red_flag: Common for a speaker to use SE and deliver it with a regional and national accent.
:pen: known as proper English/good English, the one that we used in formal settings
:pen: clearly associated with education and broadcasting in public contexts
:pen: more easily described in terms of written language. Example: vocabulary, spelling, grammar than spoken language.
:pen: born in the government office in London in the early 1400s and given shape by London printers in the late 1400s and early [1500s]
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:silhouettes: Either one could have led to a standard model of written English that most people follow.
:silhouettes: It is noted neither Oxford nor Cambridge had any effect on creating a standard.
- The standard was formed by those who produced the most written material in English: the government and the printers in London.
:star: Most well-to-do people in London spoke in an East Midlands dialect because that was where most of them came from the East Midlands region, north of London.
:star: People in the south of England could not understand those in the north, however, everyone could understand people from the East Midlands.
:star: It made middle- and upper-class London English a workable standard.
:black_flag: Began to take shape about 1400 among the clerks of the Chancery.
:black_flag: They wrote legal documents that went to courts all over the country.
:black_flag: Being used to writing in SE and Standard Latin, they tended to write English in a standard way too, preferring certain forms and spellings over others
:black_flag: They wrote in the London English of the well-to-do. It became the language of government.
:explode: The spellings graciously, said, these, them and any, for example, go back to the Chancery clerks, So-does-ly, as opposed to -li or -lich
:explode: To us, English spelling is half-mad. However, to them, it was it sounded.
:explode: Even see and sea sounded different to them- and so to this day we write them differently.
:explode: Chancery English, as the language of government, spread beyond its offices so that by 1450 it became hard to tell where most pieces of written English came from.
:check: In 1476, the first printing press in London was opened by William Caxton
:check: Each printer produced books in its own particular sort of London English, each loosely based on Chancery English.
:check: Over time their English became more advance like so that by about 1525 AD there was a clear standard which by then had become unstoppable.
:check: In the 1600s, its spelling and grammar became more to less fixed in this present form.
:check: In the 1700s, people began to see it as 'good' English. everything else becoming 'bad' or 'dialectical' - even though SE itself is just dialectical.
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:warning: There dozens of kinds of English. SE is just one of them.
:warning: It is not better than any other form of English except for 2 things.
- It is understood all of the world whenever English is spoken.
- It will not make us sound like we lack education or intelligence.