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| 材料类型： | 互联网资源 |
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| 文件类型： | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Richard J Watts |
| ISBN: | 9780195327601 0195327608 9780195327618 0195327616 |
| OCLC号码： | 609102621 |
| 描述： | xiv, 338 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| 内容： | 1. Metaphors, myths, ideologies and archives. -- Defining myths -- Conceptual metaphors and myths -- Language myths and conceptual metaphors -- Foucault's understanding of discourse -- Discourse archives -- Myths are the "stuff that ideologies are made on" -- The structure of the book -- 2. Establishing a linguistic pedigree. -- The fire at Ashburnham House -- The myth of the longevity of English -- Tracing the growth of interest in the Beowulf manuscript -- The dating of Beowulf -- Kiernan's arguments -- Sociolinguistic arguments in favour of Danelaw provenance for Beowulf -- Switching discourse archives -- 3. Breaking the unbroken tradition. -- LInking two myths -- Metapragmatic and metadiscursive linguistic expressions and their significance in inscribed orality -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and the archive they instantiated -- The breakdown of the archive and inscribed orality -- The disappearance of the ASC: the end of discourse archive -- 4. The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole. -- The creolisation hypothesis -- The discussion thread "Is English a creole?" -- The "Middle English is a creole" debate in the academic literature -- All language is language in contact -- Simplification processes not resulting in creole -- Creolisation or no creolisation? -- 5. Barbarians and others. -- The nation-state and the notion of Kultursprache -- Language versus a language versus the language -- The "other" chronicle tradition -- Myths in the Polychronicon -- Linking up and extending the myths -- The central nexus of language myths -- 6. The myth of "greatness." -- Introduction -- Dating the GVS -- A reappaisal of research work on an elusive phenomenon -- GVS disputes -- Challenging the GVS -- Sociolinguistic aspects of the GVS -- The myths of greatness reconsidered -- 7. Reinterpreting Swift's A proposal for correcting, improving an ascertaining the English tongue: challenging an embryonic modern myth. -- Potential new myths -- THe "ideology of the standard language" and the complaint tradtion -- Swift's Proposal as the beginning of a complaint tradition -- Contextualising the Proposal sociohistorically -- Alternative readings of Swifts's Proposal -- Swift and after -- 8. Polishing the myths: the commercial side of politeness. -- The obsession with politeness -- The origins of eighteenth-century politeness -- The honnête homme and Descarte's physiological metaphor -- Gentrifying philosophy -- Commercialising the myth of the polite language -- Postscript -- 9. Challenging the hegemony of standard English. -- "Polite English" and social stratification at the end of the eighteenth century -- Radicals, revolutionaries and language -- Language and working-class movements at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- William Hone, Peterloo and the Chartist movement -- From the legitimate language to the standard language -- 10.Transforming myth to save an archive: when polite becomes educated. -- From homo socialis to homo culturalis -- Language and politeness, language and "educatedeness" -- Comprehensive schools and the teaching of standard English -- Planning the reintroduction of grammar into the National Curriculum -- John Honey and the notion of educadeness -- What is standard English? -- 11. Commodifying English and constructing a new myth. -- The emergence of a modern myth -- English-"the language of the world"? -- The commodificaton of English -- The price of English in Switzerland -- Problems in the assumption that English is the global language -- 12. Myths, ideologies of English and funnel view of the history of English. -- From conceptual metaphors to discourse archives: the function of myth -- The funnel view of history of English -- Myths as stories -- Establishing the "superiority" of English -- LInguistic homgeneity versus linguistic heterogeneity. |
| 丛书名： | Oxford studies in sociolinguistics. |
| 责任： | Richard J. Watts. |
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