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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... given their rightful place in English linguistic history , and it is time they were . Telling several stories simultaneously is not something which suits the linear expository method of a book , so to convey this message I have had to ...
... given their rightful place in English linguistic history , and it is time they were . Telling several stories simultaneously is not something which suits the linear expository method of a book , so to convey this message I have had to ...
Strana 121
... given senior posts and huge tracts of land , and they arrived with their French - speaking retinues - a process which continued into the reign of Henry I. The senior Church positions were given to French - speaking abbots and bishops ...
... given senior posts and huge tracts of land , and they arrived with their French - speaking retinues - a process which continued into the reign of Henry I. The senior Church positions were given to French - speaking abbots and bishops ...
Strana 235
... Given the huge amount of unanalysed material in this period , a partial picture is all that is currently available . A great deal of scientific writing , for example , took place in the fifteenth century , but little of this has been given ...
... Given the huge amount of unanalysed material in this period , a partial picture is all that is currently available . A great deal of scientific writing , for example , took place in the fifteenth century , but little of this has been given ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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