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UNIT 8. MIDDLE ENGLISH DIALECTS AND WRITING
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§ 1. Middle English dialects The most immediate consequence of the Norman dominion in Britain, as it was said earlier (unit 9) was the wide use of the French language in many spheres of life. It was the language of the nobles and higher clergy. The intellectual life, literature and education were in the hands of French-speaking people; French alongside Latin became the language of writing. But for all that, the bulk of the indigenous population never stopped speaking English. The principal OE dialects were still spoken in the ME period and their boundaries practically remained the same. As the kingdoms which had given the names for the corresponding OE dialects (Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria and Kent) existed no longer, the dialects of ME were given new names according to their geographical position. So the dialect called before Northumbrian grew into Northern dialect, Mercian grew into Midland , Wessex into Southern or South-Western . Only Kentish dialect preserved its name, as county Kent still existed (however, this dialect is sometimes also called South-Eastern ). One of the most important moments, which is not noticeable in OE (perhaps because of the scantity of Mercian written records), is the division of Midland dialect into East Midland and West Midland dialects. This dialect division evolved in early ME, but it was almost fully preserved in later periods, only in Late ME Wessex and Kentish were united under one name – the Southern dialect. Some scholars also distinguish the Scottish dialect, though, generally this dialect together with Northumbrian is called Northern. Late ME was 28 also remarkable for the rise of the London dialect as the prevailing written form of language. The dialect of London combined East Midland and Southern features. жүктеу/скачать 0,78 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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