Stjecanje uvida u razvoj engleskog jezika i njegove osobine u odnosu na društvo i njegov razvoj. Opće obrazovni predmet za angliste.

1. Introduction, Syllabus, Aims, Grading. Expectations. Why study history of languages. Why study the history of English? Perspectives: multiple languages, single language. Internal and external history of languages. Types of changes that can be studied with examples: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation. Factors that influence language change.
2. External history: reading from McIntire. the OE period, the ME period
3. OE: examples of OE texts: deciphering, understanding, translating. Grammatical characteristics of OE texts. Comparison with PDE.
4. Case studies: reading OE texts, and focusing on a selected aspect based on research papers. Possible topics: OE literature and its role/importance; Everyday life in the period; Uses of tense/aspect; OE lexicon, OE pronunciation and the way it can be studied, etc.
5. (Presenting) case studies.
6. Presenting case studies. Intermezzo: comparing different languages, language families, reconstruction.
7. Intermezzo: OE vs other Germanic languages; reconstructions and extensions. ME: external history (revision). Comparing ME and OE texts: basic similarities and differences
8. Reading ME texts: understanding, deciphering, translating. Using ME dictionaries. Basic descriptions of ME vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation.
9. Case studies: ME. Grammar, metaphor, life, vocabulary change, grammaticalization. Using ME corpora and dictionaries.
10. Presenting case studies.
11. OE and ME literature and its importance for culture/literature. Revision of external history: Early Modern English. Caxton and printing. Emergence of Standard English
12. Early Modern English: Shakespeare. Standardization: dictionaries, grammars. Prescriptivism. Late Modern English. Industrialization. Englishes, colonialism, pidgins.
13. Variation in constructions, tense use, vocabulary in the Modern English Period. Using COHA.
14. COHA: case studies. Language change/variation today: the influence of new technologies and globalization. Written vs. spoken language. Affordances. Case studies in language change: new technologies.
15. English as a Lingua Franca: a variety or variation in progress? The native speaker issue, the issue of native culture. The importance of power in establishing language and the language narrative. Revision

1. Studenti će moći prepoznati ulogu društvenih čimbenika koji potiču dijakronijske promjene u jeziku.
2. Studenti će moći kritički prosuđivati ulogu specifičnog anglofonog društvenog konteksta u promjenama u engleskom jeziku.
3. Studenti će shvatiti kako je došlo do svih "nepravilnosti" u suvremenom engleskom jeziku.
4. Studenti će moći analizirati i preispitati raslojavanje engleskog jezika iz društveno-povijesne perspektive.
5. Studenti će moći samostalno odabrati srednjovjekovni engleski tekst i analizirati ga lingvistički.

4 sata predavanja

Studentske obveze i elementi vrednovanja: 70 % ispit 30 % seminarski rad

1. Freeborn, Dennis. 1998. From Old English to Standard English. Second Edition. Palgrave: Handmills
2. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volumes I – III. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge

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