Standard And Non-Standard Latin. Issue 37 (23rd May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moran, Jerome
• Is Part Of: Journal of classics teaching. Volume 19:Issue 37(2018)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 63
• Publication Date: 2018-05-23
• Subjects: 480.07
• DOI: 10.1017/S2058631018000090
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2058-6310

Abstract

Abstract : Readers would do well to keep in mind at all times the following distinctions when reading this article: standard/classical and non-standard; native and non-native speaker; literate and illiterate. I use 'second' and 'foreign' interchangeably of a language, as any distinction that may be made is not relevant in the context of a world in which there were no nation-states (or notions of political correctness). If I were to prefer one to the other it would be 'foreign': native speakers of Latin regarded everyone else but Greek-speakers as foreigners, or, as they called them, barbari. The foreigners came to have a higher regard for Latin than the native speakers of Latin had for their languages; but unlike the British in more recent times the latter never sought to impose their language on the former, nor even to encourage its adoption by them.