This book offers a new view of the linguistic process of
standardization, the movement of specific language features towards
uniformity. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical data, it
examines the way in which linguistic conformity develops out of
variation, and the textual and social factors which influence this
process. After defining and clarifying the general theoretical
issues involved, Professor Devitt takes as a specific case study
the standardization of written English in Scotland in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, and shows that standardization is a
gradual process, that it encompasses periods of great variation and
that it occurs concurrently with sociopolitical shifts. The
interrelationship of linguistic features, genres and social
pressures shapes the nature and direction of standardization. This
is a readable and accessible book which will appeal to those
involved in the study of Scots-English, and is of importance for
linguistic methodology and the study and teaching of literacy.
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