This course is designed to introduce the English language of c. 1500 – 1700 CE, the period in which writers like William Shakespeare, John Donne and John Milton wrote their works, and the influential "King James" Bible translation was made. It is also the period of the beginnings of the standardization of the English language.
Particular attention will be paid to the spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and syntax of what contemporaries called the General Dialect, but also to variation across time, region and according to register and social conditions. Illustrative texts will be taken mainly from dramas, poetry, personal letters, and courtroom records.
The main course book is Nevalainen (2006).
Particular attention will be paid to the spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and syntax of what contemporaries called the General Dialect, but also to variation across time, region and according to register and social conditions. Illustrative texts will be taken mainly from dramas, poetry, personal letters, and courtroom records.
The main course book is Nevalainen (2006).
- Dozent: Patrick Maiwald