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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... evidence can help . If we know , for example , that a particular charter was authorized by a Mercian king granting ... evidence , and will only occasionally be uncontentious . Most texts display variations which provide possible evidence ...
... evidence can help . If we know , for example , that a particular charter was authorized by a Mercian king granting ... evidence , and will only occasionally be uncontentious . Most texts display variations which provide possible evidence ...
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... evidence for the evolution of language variety . In an age when writing is the only source of information about language structure and use , a great deal can be deduced from the way authors opt for particular conventions of expression ...
... evidence for the evolution of language variety . In an age when writing is the only source of information about language structure and use , a great deal can be deduced from the way authors opt for particular conventions of expression ...
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... evidence of their failure as Johnson himself had sagaciously noted , expressing his distaste of Academies ( p . 378 ) – is all around us today . We have already identified several of the changes which have taken place in the vocabulary ...
... evidence of their failure as Johnson himself had sagaciously noted , expressing his distaste of Academies ( p . 378 ) – is all around us today . We have already identified several of the changes which have taken place in the vocabulary ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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