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History of English (invasion (Normans (How english survived (used by…

- - - - used by common people
      - Monastic scribes kept OE alive
      - weakening of the relations between the Normans and France
- - - - English gradually a language of science, philosophy, medicine, arts, literature
      - Rediscovery and revitalization of classical learning
      - „standardised‟ variety emerging London-based
    - - King James Bible (1611)
    - - nationalism and imperial expansion
      - Need for a national language
      - A Table Alphabeticall (1604)
    - - committee for solutions for the irregularities in usage
      - No Academy founded
      - Codification process taken up by clergymen, scientists, schoolmasters, poets, booksellers, and actors
    - - 1707: Act of Union England and Scotland
    - - 18th century A political impetus for promoting a stable and uniform language
      - Prescriptivism
      - Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
      - ohn Walker‟s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791)
    - - Good English‟ -> public schools
      - 1922 British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
      - 1917: An English Pronouncing dictionary: Received Pronunciation
      - 1919 George Krapp General American English