The Stories of EnglishAllen Lane, 2004 - Počet stran: 584 The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a quarter of the human race. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million? What developments can be seen as we move from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day? groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Many books have been written about English, but they have all focused on a single variety ? the educated, printed language called ?standard? English. David Crystal turns the history of English on its head and instead provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity and diversity of the language truly lies ? in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Somerset, South Africa or Singapore. dialect around the world as well as in literary classics from The Canterbury Tales to The Lord of the Rings. For the first time, regional speech and writing is placed centre stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of English. This significant shift in perspective enables the reader to understand for the first time the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language and provides an argument too for the way English should be taught in the future. |
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... society , whose numbers would be further swelled as the Industrial Revolution progressed . They were an increasingly literate section of society : by 1700 nearly half of the male population and a quarter of the female population of ...
... society , whose numbers would be further swelled as the Industrial Revolution progressed . They were an increasingly literate section of society : by 1700 nearly half of the male population and a quarter of the female population of ...
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... Society's inspiration . In 1667 , Bishop Thomas Sprat wrote a History of the Royal - Society of London , in which , after censuring the ' schole - men's ' philosophy and content , he turns his attention to ' the Barbar- ousness of their ...
... Society's inspiration . In 1667 , Bishop Thomas Sprat wrote a History of the Royal - Society of London , in which , after censuring the ' schole - men's ' philosophy and content , he turns his attention to ' the Barbar- ousness of their ...
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... Society for Pure English 507 Society of Friends 310 sociolinguistics 13-14 , 53 , 86 , 177 , 187 , 230 , 324 , 386 , 418 , 529 , 539 , 545 , 553 principles 529-31 Sonnets ( Shakespeare ) 319 ' Sonny's Lettah ' 505-6 South African ...
... Society for Pure English 507 Society of Friends 310 sociolinguistics 13-14 , 53 , 86 , 177 , 187 , 230 , 324 , 386 , 418 , 529 , 539 , 545 , 553 principles 529-31 Sonnets ( Shakespeare ) 319 ' Sonny's Lettah ' 505-6 South African ...
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The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Old English dialects | 34 |
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