1. Metaphors, myths, ideologies and archives 1. Defining myths 2. Conceptual metaphors and myths 3. Language myths and conceptual metaphors 4. Foucault's understanding of discourse 5. Discourse archives 6. Myths are the "stuff that ideologies are made on" 7. The structure of the book
2. Establishing a linguistic pedigree 1. The fire at Ashburnham House 2. The myth of the longewty of English 3. Tracing the growth of interest in the Beowu/[manuscript 4. The dating of Beowulf 5. Kiernan's arguments 6. Sociolinguistic arguments in favour of a Danelaw provenance for Beowulf 7. Switching discourse archives
3. Breaking the unbroken tradition 1. Linking two myths 2. Metapragmatic and metadiscursive linguistic expressions and their significance in inscribed ora:lity 3. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and the archive they instantiated 4. The breakdown of the archive and inscribed orality 5. The disappearance of the ASC: The end of a discourse archive
4. The construction of a modern myth:Middle English as a creole 1. The creolisation hypothesis 2. The discussion thread "Is English a creole?" 3, The "Middle English is a creole" debate in the academicliterature 4. All language is language in contact 5. Simplification processes not resulting in a creole 6. Creolisation or no creolisation?
5. Barbarians and others 1. The nation-state and the notion of Kultursprache 2. Language versus a language versus the language 3. The"'other" chronicle tradition 4. Myths in the Polychronicon 5. Linking up and extending the myths 6. The central nexus of language myths
6. The myth of "greatness" 1. Introduction 2. Dating the GVS 3. A reappraisal of research work on an elusivephenomenon 4. GVS disputes 5. Challenging the GVS 6. Sociolinguistic aspects of the GVS 7. The myth of greatness reconsidered
7. Reinterpreting Swift's A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue: Challenging an embryonic modern myth 1. Potential new myths 2. The "ideology of the standard language" and the complaint tradition 3. Swift's Proposalas the beginning of a complaint tradition 4. Contcxtualising the Proposa/sociohistorically 5. Alternative readings of Swift's Proposal 6. Swift and after 8. Polishing the myths: The commercial side ofpoliteness 9. Challenging the hegemony of standard English 10. Transforming a myth to save an archive: When polite becomes educated 11. Commodifying English and constructing a new myth 12. Myths, ideologies of English and the funnel view of the history of English
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