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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... pronunciation of a Language is necessarily indefinite and fugitive , and that all endeavours to delineate or settle it are in vain Still , it had to be attempted . Pronunciation was perceived to be a critical faculty , when it came to ...
... pronunciation of a Language is necessarily indefinite and fugitive , and that all endeavours to delineate or settle it are in vain Still , it had to be attempted . Pronunciation was perceived to be a critical faculty , when it came to ...
Strana 466
... Pronunciation Pronunciation still had some way to go to reach its present - day position . We know this because more information is available about the way words were pronounced during the nineteenth century , compared with previous ...
... Pronunciation Pronunciation still had some way to go to reach its present - day position . We know this because more information is available about the way words were pronounced during the nineteenth century , compared with previous ...
Strana 468
... Pronunciation . However , phonetic realities never persuade those who believe in the power of a shibboleth . Today , the use of an intrusive r - especially in a noticeable context , such as after a long open vowel ( as in drawing ) ...
... Pronunciation . However , phonetic realities never persuade those who believe in the power of a shibboleth . Today , the use of an intrusive r - especially in a noticeable context , such as after a long open vowel ( as in drawing ) ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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