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THE NORMAN CONQUEST. THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH UPON ENGLISH LANGUAGE.…
THE NORMAN CONQUEST. THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH UPON ENGLISH LANGUAGE. BORROWINGS AND CALCS
OUTLINE
4.LINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES
INFLUENCE OF FRENCH ON ENGLISH
THE NORMAN CONQUEST
IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING
DIFFERENT PERIODS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
7 CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
8 BIBLIOGRAPHY
4.LINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES
NORMANS SPOKE FRENCH: Nobles, upper classes, church. ENGLISH FOR COMMON PEOPLE
ENGLISH CITIZENS LEARNED FRENCH . situation of bilingualism
HUNDRED YEARS' WAR 14th and 15th weakened French language in favour of English. Spoken French disappeared and was only used in written language. Both languages mingle to conform MIDDLE ENGLISH being CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES the most representative work
1362 STATUTE OF PLEADING- English the language of the courts and Parliament
2.DIFFERENT PERIODS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
MIDDLE ENGLISH: 1066 NORMAN INVASION (no longer an inflected language)
MODERN ENGLISH 1500: EMPIRE IMPORTS, PRINTING PRESS
OLD ENGLISH: Germanic settlements (Jutes,Saxons and Geats tribes)400 - 787 and VIKING INVASION (inflected language)787 - 1066
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH 1950 - Present
CELT MIGRATIONS(before 0) AND ROMAN EMPIRE (0 - 400)
We are going to focus on the Norman Invasion
1.INTRODUCTION: The norman conquest was a turning point as the French moulded English and made it similar to what we know today. Without the French influence English would be similar to German.
DUMBLEDORE Celtic - VOLDEMORT French
Tolkiens Riders of Rohan talk pure ANGLO-SAXON
3.THE NORMAN CONQUEST
INVASION OF THE GERMANIC TRIBES 400
VIKING IVASION 787: NORWEGIANS. Edward the Confessor ruled from 1042 until 1066. When he died his brother in law Harold was crowned.
WILLIAM the Duke of Normandy (Edward's cousin) decided to invade England as he believed that the crown should be his.
Harold was killed by an arrow in his eye in the Battle of Hasting and William was crowned in Westminster and a new nobility was introduced to the country
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES
INFLUENCE OF FRENCH ON ENGLISH
13TH AND 14TH STRONGEST INFLUENCE: vocabulary, literature, idiomatic expressions, borrowings, calques and the spelling of English
BORROWINGS: French words transferred to English
RELIGION:Theology, confession, prayer
GOVERNMENT: Govern, royal, republic
MILITARY: Army, battle, soldier
DUPLICATIONS OF TERMS WERE FREQUENT
REPLACEMENT OF OLD ENGLISH WORDS
COMBINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH: Gentleman
TRIPLETS: Latin - French - English: INTERROGATE - QUESTION - ASK
WORD FORMATION
PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES combined with already existing words. RE- DIS- INTER- -ABLE -AGE -MENT
DERIVATION
CITÉ - CITY
CALQUES
To translate directly from one language into another was quite common. French expressions were calqued into English
TO BUILD CASTLES IN SPAIN (CHATEAU EN ESPAGNE): TO DAYDREAM
INFLUENCE ON SPELLING
U replaced by OU HOUSE/HUS
CW replaced by OE CWEN/QUEEN
IMPLICATION ON LANGUAGE TEACHING
WORD FORMATION: COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: DECREE 87/2015 that establishes the curriculum and develops the general organisation of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate in the Valencian Community
CULTURAL COMPETENCE: ORGANIG LAW 8/2013 that mention the use of the 7 KEY COMPETENCES that are later related in the ORDER ECD/65/2015
Cross curricular topic that links with French
new technologies
ED PUZZLE VIKING SHOW THAT PORTRAYS THE NORMAN'S LIFESTYLE.
7.CONCLUSION = OUTLINE
8.BIBLIOGRAPHY
ALEXANDER M 2000 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. MacMillan Press
BAUGH. A History of English Language
CRYSTAL D The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language. 1997