Publicación: Prescriptivist attempts at a spelling reform in Early Modern English: sociolinguistic and stylistic routes and rates of adoption
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2024-10-17
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Some late Renaissance scholars, like Smith (1568); Hart (1569; 1570); Bullokar (1580); Mulcaster (1582), attempted to reform English spelling to reflect the pronunciation changes resulting from the Great Vowel Shift. Their goal was to align letters and phonology by devising a more stable and predictable new system. This study explores the impact and diffusion of these spelling proposals. It examines texts from 1300 to 1700, written by authors from different socio-demographic and biological backgrounds, and across various genres, registers and text-types. The sources used as linguistic materials are the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose, an archival data source of prose pieces representing different genres from 1150 to 1500 and the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, a collection of 4,970 authored documents written from 1410 to 1681 by informants from different social ranks. This study may allow us to trace the sociolinguistic and stylistic route and rate of adoption (if any) followed by these attempts at reforming the English spelling system within processes of diffusion of linguistic innovations at the level of orthography, as well as to reconstruct the sociolinguistic contexts of language variation and change in past communities.
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The registered version of this article, first published in Studia Neophilologica, is available online at the publisher's website: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2024.2408043
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Studia Neophilologica, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2024.2408043
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Studia Neophilologica, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2024.2408043
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orthography, spelling, sound change, innovations, diffusion, adoption, egodocuments, public documents, genres, registers, text-types
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Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel, & García-Vidal, Tamara. (2024). Prescriptivist attempts at a spelling reform in Early Modern English: sociolinguistic and stylistic routes and rates of adoption. Studia Neophilologica, 1–27.
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas