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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... West Saxon texts , especially texts originating in Winchester in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries . There are big differences between the early West Saxon of King Alfred and the literary standard which emerged in the ...
... West Saxon texts , especially texts originating in Winchester in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries . There are big differences between the early West Saxon of King Alfred and the literary standard which emerged in the ...
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... West Saxon norms ( p . 56 ) . And even in the early thirteenth century there is evidence of a continuing tradition , notably in the Herefordshire region of the West Midlands . This can be seen especially in two prose works - the rule ...
... West Saxon norms ( p . 56 ) . And even in the early thirteenth century there is evidence of a continuing tradition , notably in the Herefordshire region of the West Midlands . This can be seen especially in two prose works - the rule ...
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... west was largely due to the pioneering spirit of this group of settlers , and their numbers rapidly grew . Over 37,000 Irish are recorded in the 1790 census , and over 162,000 Scottish ( nearly a third of them living in Pennsylvania ) ...
... west was largely due to the pioneering spirit of this group of settlers , and their numbers rapidly grew . Over 37,000 Irish are recorded in the 1790 census , and over 162,000 Scottish ( nearly a third of them living in Pennsylvania ) ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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