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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... texts is not surprising when we recall that by 700 several major centres of learning had emerged in the north , notably at Jarrow , Durham , and Lindisfarne , with Bede and later Alcuin produc- ing influential works . The amount of ...
... texts is not surprising when we recall that by 700 several major centres of learning had emerged in the north , notably at Jarrow , Durham , and Lindisfarne , with Bede and later Alcuin produc- ing influential works . The amount of ...
Strana 87
David Crystal. - though there are fragments of relatively informal expression in a few texts , as we shall see ( p . 97 ) . Most Old English texts show a style of language appropriate for formal occasions . None the less , even within ...
David Crystal. - though there are fragments of relatively informal expression in a few texts , as we shall see ( p . 97 ) . Most Old English texts show a style of language appropriate for formal occasions . None the less , even within ...
Strana 107
... texts which are amalgams of Old and Middle English and texts which fall ' midway ' between Old and Middle English . The eleventh and twelfth centuries have a transitional character of their own : they might well be described as a ...
... texts which are amalgams of Old and Middle English and texts which fall ' midway ' between Old and Middle English . The eleventh and twelfth centuries have a transitional character of their own : they might well be described as a ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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