Essay About Development Of The English Language And Publications Of Books

The Renaissance Period in England
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[pic 1][pic 2]INDEXAbstract        11. Outline        22.The Renaissance Period, 1500-1600        53.Analysis of texts        134.Conclusion        205.References        21Abstract The Renaissance period in England was an influential time for the introduction of the new advances that were very important for the development of the English language and an introduction of a standard language for the whole country. So, everything in the language began to change with the introduction of the printing press which allowed the spreading of the language because everyone had access to the language since many publications of books in English appeared. So, the aim of this essay is to show the linguistic changes produced in the English language during this time and how many of these shifts preserved in the language are still used in the current English. Outline 1434Alberti, an Italian humanist, wrote about his disagreement with the new tradition of using the modern languages.1476Introduction of the printing press in England by William Caxton.1500Beginning of the Modern English Period.1531Publication of the first book of education in English known as The Governour by Sir Thomas Elyot.1534Sir Thomas Elyot translated The Doctrinal of Princes, made by the Noble oratour Isocrates from Greek. 1549In France, Du Bellay wrote Defence et Illustration de la Langue Françoise to defend this new tradition1549Translation of Erasmus’ work Praise of Folly.1550Common practice of spelling and some forms are still in use today.1553Publication of the Arte of Rhetorique by Thomas Wilson, a great exponent in the objection to the new words added to the language. 1561Thomas Hoby made a preface of the translation The Courtier.1565Arthur Golding translated Caesar1568Publication of Thomas Smith’s Dialogue concerning the Correct and Emended Writing of the English Language.1569John Hart published An Orthographie. 1570A Method or Comfortable Beginning for All Unlearned, Whereby They May Bee Taught to Read English was published by John Hart1579Publication of Sir Thomas North’s version of Plutarch’s Live of the Noble Grecians and Romans. 1582Richard Munster’s publication of Elementarie. 1583Sir Philip Sydney said that English should be equal to other languages1586George Pettie wrote in his book Civile Conversation a defence of the use of English because there were many people who did not agree this.1591Some words forms like cony, conny, cuny cunnie, coosnage, been or beene appeared in one Greene’s pamphlet A Notable Discovery of Coosnage. 1595“Richard Carew wrote a discourse on The Excellency of the English Language” (Bough & Cable 2002: 193)1597The Second Book of Madrigals by Nicholas Yonge1598There was printed some translations of Homer before Chapman’s version appeared. 1600The preposition of shows the new changes in idioms, for instance, “one that I brought up of (from)” (Bough & Cable 2002: 232).1601In Poetaster, Ben Jonson called Marston “retrograde, reciprocal, incubus, lubrical, defunct…” (Bough & Cable 2002:208).1604A Table of Alphabeticall of Hard Words is the first publication of a dictionary explaining words in a foreign language  by Robert Cawdrey.1611Authorized translation of the Bible.1616Bullokar said that it was very common among writers to take strange words.1616John Bullokar’s English Expositor.1623Henry Cockeram’s English Dictionarie.1623There are found ten instances of neologisms in Shakespeare’s First Folio.  1634Charles Butler’s The English Grammar; or The Institution of Letters, Syllables, and Woords in the English Tung was written. 1650Around this date, the spelling of the Modern English was established. 1656Publication of Glossographia by Blount.1658New World of Worlds by Edward Phillip.1721Publication of the Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathaniel Bailey.1755Dr Johnson published the preface of his dictionary where he made an statement about the fixation of a spelling for English.