6. Вопрос. Devolopment of the national literary english language .

The formation of the national literary English language covers the Early NEperiod .Henceforth we can speak of the evolution of a single literary language instead of the similar or different devolopment of the dialecls .

There were at least two major exlernal factors which favoured the rise of the national language and the literary standarts ;the unification of the country and the progress of cuilure .Other historical events ,such as increased foreign contacts ,affected the language in a general way:they influened the growth of the vacabulary

Economic and Political UniticationConditions for Linguistic Unity

As early as the 13th e ,within the feudal system,neweconomic relations began to take shape .The villain was graduslly supersededby the copy holder ,and ultimately ,by the rent-paying tenant .With the growing interesl in commercial profits ,feudal oppression grew and the conditions of the peasants deteriorated. Socialdiscontent showed it self in the famous peasants and rebellions of the 14 th and 15thc.

The village artisans and craftsmen travelled aboutthe country looking for a greated marked for their produce .They settled in the oldtowns and founded new ones near big monasteries, on the rivers and at the crosssroads .The crafts became separated from agriculture ,and new social groups came into being ;poor town artisans ,the lown middle class ,rich merchants owners of workshops and money -lenders.

The 15th and 16th c saw other striking changes in the life of the country ;while feudal relationns were deeaying ,bourgeois relations and the capitalist mode of production were developing rapidly .Trade had extendede beyond the local boundaries and in addition to farming and cattle-breeding ,an important wool industry was cloth producced by the firstbig enterprises ,the ,,manufactures,,