Selected Readings on the Development of Standard English

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This bibliography was compiled from responses on HEL-L, an electronic discussion group on the history of English. Most of the entries come from: Clinton Atchley

Amsler, Mark. "From Standard Latin to Standard English." Language Variation in North American English: Research and Teaching. Ed. Wayne A. Glowka and Donald M. Lance. New Yourk: MLA, 1993.

Cable, Thomas. "Rise of Written Standard English." The Emergence of National Languages*. Ed. Aldo Scaglione. Ravenna: Longo, 1984.

Christianson, C. Paul. "Chancery Standard and the Records of Old London Bridge." Tennnessee Studies in Literature 31 (1989): 82-112.

Crowley, Tony. Standard English and the Politics of Language. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988.

Dobson, E.J. "Early Modern Standard English." Approaches to English Historical Linguistics: An Anthology*. Ed. Roger Lass. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

Dykema, Karl W. "How Fast Is Standard English Changing?" American Speech 31.2 (1956): 89-95.

Fisher, John H. "Chancery and the Emergence of Standard Written English in the Fifteenth Century." Speculum* 52.4 (1977): 870-99.

---. "Chancery Standard and Modern Written English." Journal of the Society of Archivists 6 (1979): 136-44.

---. *The Emergence of Standard English*. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1996.

Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher. *AN Anthology of Chancery English*. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1984.

Gorlach, Manfred. *New Studies in the History of English*. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1995.

---. *Studies in the History of the English Language*. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1990.

Leonard, Sterling Andrus. *The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700-1800*. New York: Russell and Russelll, 1962.

Lucas, Peter J. "Towards a Standard Written English? Continuity and Change in the Orthographic Usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464)." English Historical Linguistics 1992. Ed. Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Furster, and Juan Jose Calvo. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1994. (1-104.

Poussa, Patricia. "The Evolution of Early Standard English: The Creolization Hypothesis." *Studie Anglica Posnaniensia* 14 (1982): 69-85.

richardson, Malcolm. "Henry V, the English Chancery, and Chancery English." Speculum* 55 (1980): 726-50.

Sandved, Arthur O. "The Rise of Standard English." *Papers from the First Nordic Conference for English Studies*. Ed. Stig Johannson. Oslo: n.p., 1981. 398-404.

Shaklee, Margaret. "The Rise of Standard English." *Standards and Dialects in English*. Ed. Timothey Shopen and Joseph M. Williams. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, 1980. 33-62.

Wright, Laura. "On the Writing of the History of Standard English." *English Historical Linguistics 1992*. Ed. Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Furster, and Juan Jose Calvo. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1994. 105-15.

Atchely notes: For newcomers, John Fisher and his argument for Chancery English as the motivating force behind the rise of standard English is still the one to read first.

William Labov's The Study of Non Standard English

James Sledd, "Product in Process: From Ambiguities of Standard English to Issues that Divide Us," English Journal (Dec. 1969): 1307-16; 1329

James Sledd, "Product in Process: From Ambiguities of Standard English to Issues that Divide Us," _College English_ 50 (1988): 168-176.

James Milroy and Leslie Milroy, "Standard English and the complaint tradition, in their book _Authority in Language: Investigating language prescription and standardisation_ (London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1983).

David L. Shores & Carole P. Hines, eds. _Papers in Language Variation: SAMLA-ADS Collection_ (University of Alabama Press, 1977).
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