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14182 Introduction to the History of English - Five-year degree in English Philology

Center

Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication

Departament

English and German

Lecturers in charge

Sin datos cargados

Met. Docent

Lectures, viewing and discussion of videos; reading and discussion of texts.

Met. Avaluació

Final examination - -

Bibliografia

Algeo, J. (1994) Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich.
Bailey, R.W. et al. (1973) Varieties of Present Day English. New York. McMillan.
Baugh, A. & Cable, T. (2002) [5th ed.] A History of the English Language. Englewood Cliffs (NJ):: Prentice Hall.
Bakhtin, M. M. (1996) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Ballerster, X. (2002) Las primeras palabras de la humanidad. Valencia: Ediciones Tilde.

Continguts

Contents for the course
Theory:

I. From the beginning
1.1. Indo-Europeans
1.2. The Celtic substratum.
1.3. The Romanization of England: Caesar and Claudius. Early Latin borrowings.
1.4. The Germanic Tribes and the decadence of the Roman Empire. The Germanic Invasions of the British Isles: Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Anglo-Saxon.
1.5. The Christianization of England: The Roman and Celtic branches of Christianity, the Synod of Whitby.
1.6. The Viking invasions. Settlements in England. Power struggles between the Saxons and the Vikings. The Danelaw.
1.7. The creation of the alphabet (Latin, German and Celtic influences).
1.8. The search for a standard: Alfred and ãlfric).
1.9. The Norman Conquest: social and linguistic repercussions.
1.10. The loss of the dominions in France.

II. Towards the formation of a standard
II.1. Middle English dialects.
II.2. English as a national language: political, social and economic causes.
II.3. Caxton and the invention of the printing press.
II.4. The influence of Chaucer.
II.5. The birth of a literary standard.
II.6. Chancery English

III. The vocabulary explosion
III.1. Humanism and Renaissance: new attitudes towards English.
III.2. The influence of Shakespeare.
III.3. The Bible.
III.4. The inkhorn controversy
III.5. Dryden and the beginnings of modern prose: Dryden.

IV. Prescriptivism and attempts at the codifying the language
IV.1