The Stories of EnglishHarry N. Abrams, 9. 9. 2004 - Počet stran: 608 The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard English. Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and 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 globe. Interwoven within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of 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 center stage. This significant shift in perspective enables the reader to understand the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language, and provides an argument for the way English should be taught in the future. |
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... Modern English sell ) . The likelihood is that the early part of the Chronicle was written by a Mercian , who left ... English manuscript : the last four lines of p . 105r of the Vercelli Book ( MS Vercelli Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII ) ...
... Modern English sell ) . The likelihood is that the early part of the Chronicle was written by a Mercian , who left ... English manuscript : the last four lines of p . 105r of the Vercelli Book ( MS Vercelli Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII ) ...
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David Crystal. Chapter 12 Early Modern English preoccupations The linguistic jump from Middle English to Modern English is too great to make in one step , and for this reason scholars have identified a transitional period which usually ...
David Crystal. Chapter 12 Early Modern English preoccupations The linguistic jump from Middle English to Modern English is too great to make in one step , and for this reason scholars have identified a transitional period which usually ...
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... Modern English 289 in Middle English 157 , 171-2 , 235 in Modern English 454-7 in Old English 8 Scop 92-3 Scots ( language ) 5 , 75 , 204-5 , 385 , 405 , 409 in Early Modern English 298-9 , 298-9 , 338 , 544 in Middle English 199 , 201 ...
... Modern English 289 in Middle English 157 , 171-2 , 235 in Modern English 454-7 in Old English 8 Scop 92-3 Scots ( language ) 5 , 75 , 204-5 , 385 , 405 , 409 in Early Modern English 298-9 , 298-9 , 338 , 544 in Middle English 199 , 201 ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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