Trendy v ortografické variaci raně anglických tištěných textů

Kupková, Tatiana

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 printers. This thesis investigates spelling variation trends in printed texts from the introduction of the printing press to England in 1476 to the end of seventeenth century by examining the degree of spelling variation in individual texts published in this period, as well as by measuring the overall degree of spelling variation in all texts printed by individual printers and comparing the results to the overall spelling trends. The material used for the analysis comes from the EarlyPrint database that contains both original and normalised versions of texts available from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) corpus. The levels of spelling variation are calculated using weighted entropy and the trends resulting from the calculations are compared. The results show a generally downward trend throughout the decades, although the decrease is not immediate. The findings of this thesis suggest that spelling variation started to decrease more rapidly in late...

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