TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ursula Schaefer
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Beginnings of Standardization
T2  - Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1101345
N2  - Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernaculars massively gained ground in writing throughout Western Europe. They soon underwent regularization and eventually standardization. In England, however, the situation was quite different from that of the continent: well into the 14th century the literate space was filled mainly by Latin and French. For a long time Chaucer has been regarded as having brought about the ‘victory’ of English. But recent research calls for a broader perspective including the work of linguists as well as literary and cultural historians. Such a new perspective helps to assess that English was not reestablished by a poet hero and standardized by a king. Instead we need to consider that various forces were at work.
KW  - Mittelenglisch, Geschichte 1300-1400, Dresden (2004), Standardisierung, Standardsprache, Kongress, Sprachnorm
LA  - English
ER  -