The Emergence of Standard English
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, John H.
The Emergence of Standard English
- Published
- Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- Physical Description
- ix, 208 pp.
- Description
- Prints eight previously published essays with a new introduction, all pertaining to the influence of bureaucratic and literary language on the standardization of English. Chronicling the development of Fisher's idea that standard written English arose out of bureaucratic scribal practice, the introduction explore relations between the Chancery Standard and Tudor English.
- For the reprinted essays that relate directly to Chaucer, search under the title of this volume.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.