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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... letters are a remarkable collection , over 400 letters ( c . 200,000 words ) written over three generations by a Norfolk family who rose from peasantry to junior aristocracy during that time . At the time of this letter , John Paston ...
... letters are a remarkable collection , over 400 letters ( c . 200,000 words ) written over three generations by a Norfolk family who rose from peasantry to junior aristocracy during that time . At the time of this letter , John Paston ...
Strana 268
... letters for one sound . He particularly objects to a ' superfluite ' of letters - ' more letters than the pronunciation neadeth of voices ' - where he is thinking of the extra letters introduced into words by printers ( p . 257 ) as ...
... letters for one sound . He particularly objects to a ' superfluite ' of letters - ' more letters than the pronunciation neadeth of voices ' - where he is thinking of the extra letters introduced into words by printers ( p . 257 ) as ...
Strana 281
... Letters as they stand , perfectly without booke , and where euery Letter standeth : Not content with this , he adds an illustration : as ( b ) neere the beginning , ( n ) about the middest , and ( t ) toward the end . And in case even ...
... Letters as they stand , perfectly without booke , and where euery Letter standeth : Not content with this , he adds an illustration : as ( b ) neere the beginning , ( n ) about the middest , and ( t ) toward the end . And in case even ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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