Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English
- Published
- Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, and Päivi Pahta, eds. Writing in Nonstandard English (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 123-50.
- Description
- Assesses the northernisms in RvT and the speech of the bastard in Shakespeare's King John as examples of "nonstandard" language in a time when a standard was only developing. In both pronunciation and lexicon, the northernisms of RvT "should perhaps be considered as nothing more than a different style," not "the exploitation of linguistic prejudices."
- Alternative Title
- Writing in Nonstandard English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.