Dialect : 'England's Dreaming'

Author / Editor
Penhallurick, Robert, and Adrian Willmott.

Title
Dialect : 'England's Dreaming'

Published
Robert Penhallurick, ed. Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 5-43.

Description
Locates the earliest efforts to identify Standard English in William of Malmesbury's comments on language and foreignness, arguing that awareness of foreignness (and little more) underlies the ideal of a standard. Comments on various discussions of dialect in RvT as efforts to locate the rise of a standard.

Contributor
Willmott, Adrian.

Alternative Title
Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Reeve and His Tale.