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T1 Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More y la lengua inglesa estándar de su época
A1 Gómez Soliño, José S.
AB The analysis, with regard to 31 variable items, of a score ofholograph letters both by Th. More and Th. Wolsey, and the study oftheir behaviour vis-á-vis the official language of the Statutes of theRealm inrolled in Chancery, throw some interesting light on theprocess and progress of linguistic standardization in the early 16thcentury. The letters show signs of their writers' idiosincratic evolutiontowards (but also incomplete accommodation to) Chancery Standard.Both groups of texts exhibit some dialectal traits which, though theytally with More's and Wolsey's known local origins, are not quiteenough in themselves for precise identification of provenance. Theofficial language, on the other hand, is not free from some of thevariations we observe in the private documents. The Statutes reflect insome points the individual preferences of the clerks who copied or drewthem up. But public documents also lead the way in many respectstowards modern forms. On the whole, the situation in the early 16th c.does not seem radically different from that described by N. Davisregarding the Paston Letters of the late 15th c.
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RD 18-sep-2024