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 466
... stress pattern was different from what it is today , as in balcony , compensate , and Trafalgar . We can even date the change , in such cases as balcony : dictionaries before 1800 show the older stress pattern only , there is then some ...
... stress pattern was different from what it is today , as in balcony , compensate , and Trafalgar . We can even date the change , in such cases as balcony : dictionaries before 1800 show the older stress pattern only , there is then some ...
Strana 471
... stress on 1st syllable allied , but állied forces allies awltercayt ámaterr ; final syllable rhymes with fur améenable améenities amenities anchovy anglice antiquary apothegm , apophthegm apparatus an - chovy ánglissy stress on 1st ...
... stress on 1st syllable allied , but állied forces allies awltercayt ámaterr ; final syllable rhymes with fur améenable améenities amenities anchovy anglice antiquary apothegm , apophthegm apparatus an - chovy ánglissy stress on 1st ...
Strana 475
... stress pattern of a word is guaranteed to cause disquiet , and this lasts a few decades before it dies away . In the first half of the nineteenth century , as we saw above , there was a dispute over the new pronunciation of such words ...
... stress pattern of a word is guaranteed to cause disquiet , and this lasts a few decades before it dies away . In the first half of the nineteenth century , as we saw above , there was a dispute over the new pronunciation of such words ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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