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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... writing system , must have provided a very uncertain linguistic climate for the creative writer . Poets make their impact by operating within a language system that is essentially stable . As Robert Graves once put it : ' A poet ...
... writing system , must have provided a very uncertain linguistic climate for the creative writer . Poets make their impact by operating within a language system that is essentially stable . As Robert Graves once put it : ' A poet ...
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... writing would avoid foreign impurities , as well as provincialisms , everyday slang , obsolete terms , and arcane scholarly words . Rather it would aim for clear and elegant expression , employing euphonious polysyllabic words ...
... writing would avoid foreign impurities , as well as provincialisms , everyday slang , obsolete terms , and arcane scholarly words . Rather it would aim for clear and elegant expression , employing euphonious polysyllabic words ...
Strana 255
... writing bore any relationship to what was going on in speech . The written language , we might say , was taking on a life of its own developing in one way ; writing in another . We live with the consequences today : a language where ...
... writing bore any relationship to what was going on in speech . The written language , we might say , was taking on a life of its own developing in one way ; writing in another . We live with the consequences today : a language where ...
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List of Illustrations | 1 |
The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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