PROGRAMME:

Week 1 (3 Oct)

Introduction.

Text 1: Nevalainen, Terttu – Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “Standardisation in the History of English” (in: Hogg – Denison; pp. 271-311)

Week 2 (10 Oct):

Text 2: Nevalainen, Terttu, “Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change” (in: van Kemenade – Los, pp. 1-26)

Presentation 1: Timofeeva, Olga. 2017. Lexical Loans and Their Diffusion in Old English: of ‘gospels’, ‘martyrs’, and ‘teachers’. Studia Neophilologica 89(3), 1-23

Week 3 (17 Oct)

Text 3: Terttu Nevalainen, Tanja Säily, Turo Vartiainen, Aatu Liimatta and Jefrey Lijffijt: History of English as punctuated equilibria? A meta-analysis of the rate of linguistic change in Middle English.

Presentation 2: Timofeeva, Olga. 2018. Mid ðare soðe luue ðe is icleped karite: Pastoral care and lexical innovation in the thirteenth century. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) 23, 55–85.

Week 4 (24 Oct):

Text 4: Townend, Matthew, “Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse and French” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 61-86)

Presentation 3: Ingham, Richard. 2018. The diffusion of higher-status lexis in medieval England: the role of the clergy. English Language & Linguistics 22, Special Issue 2: Mechanisms of French contact influence in Middle English: diffusion and maintenance, pp. 207-224.

Week 5 (31 Oct)

Text 5: Corrie, Marilyn, “Middle English – Dialects and Diversity” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 86-120)

Presentation 4: Ingham, Richard. 2009. Mixing languages on the manor. Medium Ævum 78, 80–97.

TEST 1

Week 6 (7 Nov)

Text 6: Smith, Jeremy J., “From Middle to Early Modern English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 120-147)

Presentation 5: Evans, Mel. "‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)" Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 153-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2015-0011

Week 7 (14 Nov)

Presentation 6: Nevalainen, Terttu. 2009. Grasshoppers and blind beetles. Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence. In: Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala, Minna Palander-Collin (eds). The language of daily life in England (1400-1800), Benjamins, 137-164.

Text 7: Blank, Paula, “The Babel of Renaissance English” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 212-240)

Week 8 (21 Nov)

Presentation 7: Gotti, Maurizio. 2002. The origin of 17th century canting terms. In: Diaz Vera, J. E. (ed.) A Changing World of Words. Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 163–196.

Presentation 8: But, Roxanne. "“He said he was going on the scamp”: Thieves’ cant, enregisterment and the representation of the social margins in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers", Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol. 3, no. 2, 2017, pp. 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2017-1001

TEST 2

Week 9 (28 Nov)

Text 8: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, “English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 240-274)

Presentation 9: Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. 2010. Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.), Eighteenth Century English. Ideology and Change. Cambridge University Press, 59–72.

Week 10 (5 Dec)

Text 9: Mugglestone, Lynda, “English in the Nineteenth Century” (in: Mugglestone, pp. 274-304)

Presentation 10: Trudgill, Peter. “I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation, In: Laura Wright (ed.), Southern English Varieties Then and Now, Topics in English Linguistics 100, De Gruyter: Mouton, 2018, pp. 132-148.

Week 11 (12 Dec)

Text 10: Upton, Clive: „Modern Regional English in the British Isles“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 305-333)

Presentation 10: Beal, Joan C. 2004. Beyond the British Isles. In: Beal, Joan C. English in Modern Times 1700–1945. London: Arnold, 209–220.

TEST 3

Week 12 (19 Dec)

Text 11: Bailey, Richard W.: „English Among the Languages“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 334-359)

Presentation 11: Romaine, Suzanne. 2006. Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language. In: van Kemenade, Ans and Bettelou Los (eds), The Handbook of the History of English, Oxford: Blackwell, 589–608.

Week 13 (2 Jan)

Text 12: McArthur, Tom: „English World-wide in the Twentieth Century“ (in: Mugglestone, pp. 360-393)

Text 13: Trudgill, Peter: “Standard English: What It Isnʼt” (in: Bex & Watts, pp. 117-128)

TEST 4

Concluding discussion.