A History of English Spelling

D. G. Scragg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

125 Seiten

2011
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-0639-5 (ISBN)

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This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.

This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon’ adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day. It shows the respective influences on modern usage of native French and Latin orthographies and attempts a definition of the manner in which spelling stabilised. A final chapter traces changing notions of correctness in spelling during the last four centuries, and also gives a summary of the principle movements for its reform in favour of a more consistent and phonetic system of notion.

Students in higher education specialising in English or linguistics and also those studying other languages at an advanced level should find this a useful book. The general reader with an interest in the history of his language or the question of spelling will find it most readable -- .

D.G. Scragg is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester. -- .

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and signs
Phonetic symbols
1. The foundation
2. The collapse of the standard
3. The French invasion
4. Renaissance and re-formation
5. The power of the press
6. Sound spelling
Bibliography
Word index
Subject index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.2011
Zusatzinfo	2 Maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7190-0639-2 / 0719006392
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-0639-5 / 9780719006395
Zustand	Neuware