Spelling Variation Trends in Early English Printed Texts

• Název práce v češtině: Trendy v ortografické variaci ran‎‎ě anglických tištěných textů
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Spelling Variation Trends in Early English Printed Texts
• Klíčová slova: ortografie|variace|raná moderní angličtina|tištěné texty|standardizace
• Klíčová slova anglicky: spelling|variation|Early Modern English|printed texts|standardisation
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2022/2023
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky (21-UAJD)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Mgr. Ondřej Tichý, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 19.10.2022
• Datum zadání: 19.10.2022
• Schválení administrátorem: bylo schváleno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 29.04.2023
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 07.09.2023 09:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 10.08.2023
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 07.09.2023
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: Mgr. Alena Novotná

Zásady pro vypracování

The introduction of the printing press to England by William Caxton is often mentioned as the main cause of spelling standardisation in Early Modern English. This claim, however, seems to lack sufficient quantitative grounds and is often contradicted by research focusing on examining the consistency of spelling in texts printed by individual publishers. The texts published by Caxton himself appear to be highly inconsistent in terms of spelling (Blake, 1969). On the contrary, texts printed by other publishers, such as Wynkyn de Worde (Aronoff, 1989), show much higher degree of spelling consistency. The aim of this thesis is to investigate spelling variation trends in printed texts from the introduction of the printing press to England in 1476 to the end of 17^th century by examining the degree of spelling consistency within texts published by individual printing houses and comparing the results to the overall spelling trends. The material used for the analysis will be taken from Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME) and analysed with the help of the VARD 2 software to detect spelling variants.
Práce bude vypracována v anglickém jazyce.

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