The English Language

Introduction to the history of the English language, ranging from prehistory to the present day.

Author: Charles Barber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521785707

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 299

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Introduction to the history of the English language, ranging from prehistory to the present day.
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

A second edition, newly revised for the current generation, includes extensive illustrated coverage of world English and Internet English as well as updated statistics, further reading suggestions, and additional reference lists.

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521530334

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 499

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A second edition, newly revised for the current generation, includes extensive illustrated coverage of world English and Internet English as well as updated statistics, further reading suggestions, and additional reference lists. Simultaneous. (Language)
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A History of the English Language

In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries.

Author: Richard Hogg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781139451291

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
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The English Languages

Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.

Author: Tom McArthur

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521481309

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 247

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Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.
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The Origins and Development of the English Language

Updated to reflect current research and rewritten for further clarity of presentation, the sixth edition of the best-selling THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to take a linguistic-analysis approach and focuses on ...

Author: John Algeo

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781428231450

Category: Fiction

Page: 368

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Updated to reflect current research and rewritten for further clarity of presentation, the sixth edition of the best-selling THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to take a linguistic-analysis approach and focuses on the facts of language rather than on theoretical approaches. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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A History of the English Language

Complementary web site information is provided throughout the book, and a companion web site accompanies the book. This book has a companion website: www.historyofenglish.net

Author: Elly van Gelderen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

ISBN: 9789027232366

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 334

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This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of the language, it provides many example sentences, texts, and cartoons that are analyzed for the benefit of the student and which make this book ideal for class use. Some language-external topics are covered such as early printing and authorship debates. Tables and figures complement the material covered and exercises review the main points as well as ask further, more challenging, questions. Answers to the exercises are provided, as is a time line listing some of the external events, and some guidance on how to use the OED. Complementary web site information is provided throughout the book, and a companion web site accompanies the book. This book has a companion website: www.historyofenglish.net
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A History of the English Language

This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website

Author: Elly van Gelderen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN: 9789027270436

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 338

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The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website
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Politics and the English Language

'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780141976297

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 32

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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that 'Politics and the English Language' was written after the close of World War II.
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Studies in the History of the English Language III

From “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats (1920) The common practice of
historians of the language creates broad generalizations about the English
language. We make dictionaries of English, grammars of English, and
phonologies of ...

Author: Christopher M. Cain

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 9783110198515

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 315

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The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall perspective that an elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in the study of the history of the English language. Designed for students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III) presents studies on all periods of the English language in a variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level; Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian models that situate language change within small, close networks of speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change. All of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the construction of our present understanding of the history of English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the way ahead for the future of the discipline.
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Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged

This latest unabridged Merriam-Webster is the eighth in a series which has its
beginning in Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828
. On Webster's death in 1843 the unsold copies and publishing rights of his ...

Author: Noah Webster

Publisher: Merriam-Webster

ISBN: 9780877792017

Category: Dictionaries, Polyglot

Page: 2806

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Contains over 472,000 entries defining the English language as it is written and spoken today.
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