French pretensions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20356714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Davidson (0000-0001-9269-3227, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2-4 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266078417000207 |
| OpenAlex | W4231070346 |
| Language | EN |
The ‘English’ have an ambiguous relationship with the language of their nearest neighbour, France. There is a history, ‘1066 and all that’. Christmas Day 2016 saw the 950 th anniversary of the crowning at Westminster Abbey of the French Duke William of Normandy as King of England (not, please note, of ‘Britain’); William having defeated King Harold – and so the very last ‘English’ monarch – at the battle of Hastings. (The other ‘nations’ of these European off-shore islands have different trajectories.) Sooner or later the English at least would have to come to terms with French
Ancient history · Art · Battle · English language · Linguistics · Shore · Classics · History · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Oceanography
| Highly cited | No |
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