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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... native speakers of English , who will have grown up with an informal command of the language ; but it is crucial for non - native learners , who comprise the vast majority of English language users today ( see Chapter 17 ) . For example ...
... native speakers of English , who will have grown up with an informal command of the language ; but it is crucial for non - native learners , who comprise the vast majority of English language users today ( see Chapter 17 ) . For example ...
Strana 187
... native words . The linguistic dimension of the debate is often related to a deeper social , religious , or aesthetic issue - a ' simpler ' English to enable ordinary people to understand the Bible , perhaps , or a ' native ' English to ...
... native words . The linguistic dimension of the debate is often related to a deeper social , religious , or aesthetic issue - a ' simpler ' English to enable ordinary people to understand the Bible , perhaps , or a ' native ' English to ...
Strana 507
... native - speaking point of origin is becoming less relevant as time goes by . The centre of gravity of the English language is steadily shifting from the native speaker to the non - native speaker . People who use English as a second or ...
... native - speaking point of origin is becoming less relevant as time goes by . The centre of gravity of the English language is steadily shifting from the native speaker to the non - native speaker . People who use English as a second or ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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