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Language myths and the history of English
Metaphors, myths, ideologies and archives
DEFINING MYTHS
CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS AND MYTHS
LANGUAGE MYTHS AND CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS
The connection with history and the nation-state
Conceptual metaphors of language
FOUCAULT'S UNDERSTANDING OF DISCOURSE
DISCOURSE ARCHIVES
MYTHS ARE THE "STUFF THAT IDEOLOGIES ARE MADE ON"
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
Establishing a linguistic pedigree
THE FIRE AT ASHBURNHAM HOUSE
THE MYTH OF THE LONGEVITY OF ENGLISH
TRACING THE GROWTH OF INTEREST IN THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT
THE DATING OF BEOWULF
KIERNAN'S ARGUMENTS
SOCIOLINGUISTIC ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF A DANELAW PROVENANCE FOR BEOWULF
SWITCHING DISCOURSE ARCHIVES
Breaking the unbroken tradition
LINKING TWO MYTHS
METAPRAGMATIC AND METADISCURSIVE LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN INSCRIBED ORALITY
Metapragmatic and metadiscursive linguistic expressions
Inscribed orality
THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES AND THE ARCHIVE THEY INSTANTIATED
What were the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles?
What was the archive of which the ASC was an instantiation?
THE BREAKDOWN OF THE ARCHIVE AND INSCRIBED ORALITY
What was or is the Peterborough Chronicle?
Inscribed orality in the first section and First Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle
Inscribed orality in the Second Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ASC: THE END OF A DISCOURSE ARCHIVE
The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole
THE CREOLISATION HYPOTHESIS
THE DISCUSSION THREAD "IS ENGLISH A CREOLE?"
THE "MIDDLE ENGLISH IS A CREOLE" DEBATE IN THE ACADEMIC LITERATURE
Beginnings of the debate: Bailey and Maroldt (1977)
First opponents
Confusion reigns
Clarity returns
ALL LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE IN CONTACT
SIMPLIFICATION PROCESSES NOT RESULTING IN A CREOLE
The will of Ketel
The First and Second Continuations of the Peterborough Chronicle
The Ormulum and Havelok the Dane
CREOLISATION OR NO CREOLISATION?
Barbarians and others
THE NATION-STATE AND THE NOTION OF KULTURSPRACHE
LANGUAGE VERSUS A LANGUAGE VERSUS THE LANGUAGE
Explaining the paradoxes
The cognitive approach to language: Human language versus different languages
A focus on the language
THE "OTHER" CHRONICLE TRADITION
MYTHS IN THE POLYCHRONICON
LINKING UP AND EXTENDING THE MYTHS
The central myths
Three later myths of the sixteenth century
Local and peripheral myths
THE CENTRAL NEXUS OF LANGUAGE MYTHS
The myth of "greatness"
INTRODUCTION
DATING THE GVS
A REAPPRAISAL OF RESEARCH WORK ON AN ELUSIVE PHENOMENON
How has the GVS traditionally been presented?
What was the "Great Vowel Shift"?
GVS DISPUTES
CHALLENGING THE GVS
SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF THE GVS
THE MYTH OF GREATNESS RECONSIDERED
Reinterpreting Swift's A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
POTENTIAL NEW MYTHS
THE "IDEOLOGY OF THE STANDARD LANGUAGE" AND THE COMPLAINT TRADITION
SWIFT'S PROPOSAL AS THE BEGINNING OF A COMPLAINT TRADITION
CONTEXTUALISING THE PROPOSAL SOCIOHISTORICALLY
Veiled criticism: The smokescreen of complaining about language
Swift's use of the language myths
ALTERNATIVE READINGS OF SWIFT'S PROPOSAL
SWIFT AND AFTER
Polishing the myths
THE OBSESSION WITH POLITENESS
THE ORIGINS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITENESS
THE HONNETE HOMME AND DESCARTES' PHYSIOLOGICAL METAPHOR
GENTRIFYING PHILOSOPHY
COMMERCIALISING THE MYTH OF THE POLITE LANGUAGE
Establishing the idea of a social order: The Tatler and the Spectator
Institutionalising the ideology of politeness/standard English
Commercialising standard English, or polite English
POSTSCRIPT
Challenging the hegemony of standard English
"POLITE ENGLISH" AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
RADICALS, REVOLUTIONARIES AND LANGUAGE
"Refined" and "vulgar" language
John Horne Tooke and the challenge to the distinction between "refined" and "vulgar" language
LANGUAGE AND WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
WILLIAM HONE, PETERLOO AND THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT
The three trials of William Hone
The shame of Peterloo
Chartism and the fear of armed revolution
FROM THE LEGITIMATE LANGUAGE TO THE STANDARD LANGUAGE
Transforming a myth to save an archive
FROM HOMO SOCIALIS TO HOMO CULTURALIS
LANGUAGE AND POLITENESS, LANGUAGE AND "EDUCATEDNESS"
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS AND THE TEACHING OF STANDARD ENGLISH
PLANNING THE REINTRODUCTION OF GRAMMAR INTO THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
JOHN HONEY AND THE NOTION OF EDUCATEDNESS
WHAT IS STANDARD ENGLISH?
Commodifying English and constructing a new myth
THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN MYTH
ENGLISH—"THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD"?
THE COMMODIFICATION OF ENGLISH
THE PRICE OF ENGLISH IN SWITZERLAND
Background information
Locating the transformation: Two significant official documents
Competing ideologies
"The earlier, the better" and the need for English in the global market
Consequences of the discourse of English as a global language
PROBLEMS IN THE ASSUMPTION THAT ENGLISH IS THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE
Myths, ideologies of English and the funnel view of the history of English
FROM CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS TO DISCOURSE ARCHIVES: THE FUNCTION OF THE MYTH
THE FUNNEL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
MYTHS AS STORIES
ESTABLISHING THE "SUPERIORITY" OF ENGLISH
LINGUISTIC HOMOGENEITY VERSUS LINGUISTIC HETEROGENEITY
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