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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... vowel sound high up in the front of the mouth , pronounced with rounded lips , similar to the vowel in French tu or Scots you . Several other words had this vowel , such as syn ' sin ' , fyllan ' fill ' , and mynster ' minster ' . As ...
... vowel sound high up in the front of the mouth , pronounced with rounded lips , similar to the vowel in French tu or Scots you . Several other words had this vowel , such as syn ' sin ' , fyllan ' fill ' , and mynster ' minster ' . As ...
Strana 251
... vowels underwent a series of changes . The long vowels can be heard today in the Received Pronunciation ( p . 468 ) of words like seat ( as opposed to the short vowel of sit ) and lose ( vs loose ) . In Middle English , there were seven ...
... vowels underwent a series of changes . The long vowels can be heard today in the Received Pronunciation ( p . 468 ) of words like seat ( as opposed to the short vowel of sit ) and lose ( vs loose ) . In Middle English , there were seven ...
Strana 269
... vowels . By this period , a long vowel had come to be indicated by either a doubled vowel ( as in moon ) or a final silent -e ( as in ride ) , and if it was necessary to distinguish a short vowel , this would be shown by a following ...
... vowels . By this period , a long vowel had come to be indicated by either a doubled vowel ( as in moon ) or a final silent -e ( as in ride ) , and if it was necessary to distinguish a short vowel , this would be shown by a following ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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