登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Broken English
Paula Blank
其他書名
Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings
出版Routledge, 2002-11
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SociolinguisticsLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN11347747379781134774739
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OQiGAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects of early modern English - in both linguistic and literary works of the period. Blank argues that Renaissance authors such as Spenser, Shakespeare and Jonson helped to construct the idea of a national language, variously known as 'true' English or 'pure' English or the 'King's English', by distinguishing its dialects - and sometimes by creating those dialects themselves. Broken English reveals how the Renaissance 'invention' of dialect forged modern alliances of language and cultural authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance studies and Renaissance English literature. It will also make fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the history of English language.