The development of British English Language Presented by Koah Table of contents 1 Old English 2 Middle English 3 Early modern English 4 Modern English Old English (450 – 1150) Old English the earliest.
The development of British English Language Presented by Koah Table of contents Old English Middle English Early modern English Modern English Old English (450 – 1150) Old English - the earliest form of the English language was spoken and written in Anglo-Saxon Britain from c 450 CE until c 1150 (thus it continued to be used for some decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066) The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid 5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern Great Britain Their language, now called Old English, originated as a group of Anglo-Frisian dialects which were spoken, at least by the settlers, in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages, displacing the Celtic languages (and, possibly, British Latin) that had previously been dominant Old English is one of the West Germanic languages, and its closest relatives are Old Frisian and Old Saxon Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and Modern Scots, and impossible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers to understand without study Within Old English grammar nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs have many inflectional endings and forms, and word order is much freer Middle English (1100-1500) _ Middle English lasted from about 1100 -1500 _ In 1066, William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy ( part of modern France), invaded and conquered England _ The new conquerors ( called the Normans) brought with them a kind of French, which became the language of the Royal Court ruling and business classes William The Conqueror The Norman Conquest/ The Battle of Hastings Some characteristics of the Language: _A period of linguistic class division: •Upper class, political leaders, royal court: spoke French •Lower classes: spoke Old English _ In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added _ In 1399, King Henry IV became the first king of England since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English By the end of the 14th century, the dialect of London had emerged as the standard dialect of what we now call Middle English OLD ENGLISH ( CELTIC, LATIN, GERMANIC, SCANDINAVIAN) Middle English Alphabet + FRENCH = MIDDLE ENGLISH • The Great Plague of 1665 – 1666 had a strong impact on the English language due to the cultural changes that resulted • The pronunciation changes that took place during the Great Vowel Shift evolved in part due to the greater social mobility which happened after The Great Plague • This was because the plague wiped out a large portion of the aristocracy as well as the lower classes In just seven months, one fifth of the population of London was dead • This merging of lower-class English and higher class Anglo-Norman combined to create a new Early Modern English • Although difficult, this English is intelligible to English speakers today A good example of Early Modern English is the language used in Shakespeare’s works Texts from the earlier phase of Early Modern English, may present more difficulties but are still obviously closer to Modern English grammar, lexicon, and phonology The late-15th century Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) The mid-16th century Gorboduc (1561) • • Early Modern English is also known as Shakespearean English, thanks to it being the tongue of the country’s most important writer 1590 - 1611—William Shakespeare writes his Sonnets and the majority of his plays In 1603—Queen Elizabeth dies and James I (James VI of Scotland) accedes to the throne In 1604—Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabetical, the first English dictionary, is published Early Modern English Timeline In 1788 The English first settle in Australia, near present-day Sydney 1789 Noah Webster publishes Dissertations on the English Language, which advocates an American standard of usage 1791 The Observer, the oldest national Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication Modern English 15th century to present Modern English: - Starting to change the pronunciations - Appearing more phrases and new words - Spelling and grammar is fixed and London become standard of English - In 1604 the first English dictionary was published Some marks: - 1476, William Caxton establishes the first English printing press - 1604, Table Alphabetical, the first English dictionary, is published - 1607, The first permanent English settlement in the New World (Jamestown) is established - 1702, The first daily English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London Late modern English - Vocabulary is wealthier than before with more concept approaching - The Industrial Revolution and technology created a need for new words - The English language adopted foreign words from many countries Some marks: - 1828, Webster publishes his American English dictionary - 1922, The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded - 1928, The Oxford English Dictionary is published Thanks! 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