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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Strana 34
... nature of the evidence available to us from the Anglo - Saxon period , and is highly misleading . The four dialects are judgements based on the investigation of the surviving literary texts , and these are few and fragmentary . Toronto ...
... nature of the evidence available to us from the Anglo - Saxon period , and is highly misleading . The four dialects are judgements based on the investigation of the surviving literary texts , and these are few and fragmentary . Toronto ...
Strana 169
... nature of translation , the use of Latinate rhetorical figures , and the differences between Latin and English style . It is possible to see , from the range of stylistic variation in Old English texts ( Chapter 4 ) , that some authors ...
... nature of translation , the use of Latinate rhetorical figures , and the differences between Latin and English style . It is possible to see , from the range of stylistic variation in Old English texts ( Chapter 4 ) , that some authors ...
Strana 246
... nature relatively conservative in their usage ( as in legal English ) , some relatively innovative ( as in literary English ) . During the fifteenth century there was no uniform rate of development of the standard form , and no single ...
... nature relatively conservative in their usage ( as in legal English ) , some relatively innovative ( as in literary English ) . During the fifteenth century there was no uniform rate of development of the standard form , and no single ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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