A Social History Of English

Author : Mr Dick Leith,Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134711444

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A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.

Author : Mr Dick Leith,Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134711451

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A Social History of English by Mr Dick Leith,Dick Leith Pdf

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. 'An excellent book: original, clear and well-written.' - Albion

Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845137502

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A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley Pdf

Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023349

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A Social History of English Rugby Union by Tony Collins Pdf

From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.

Author : Cheryl A. Fury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1843839539

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The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815 by Cheryl A. Fury Pdf

A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at sea in the early modern period.

Author : Eric David Mackerness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134563319

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A Social History of English Music by Eric David Mackerness Pdf

First published in 2006. The social history of music first makes an appearance—even if only sporadically—in treatises which during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave some account of the manners and morals of specific periods, and of these socio-historical writings one of the most comprehensive is Voltaire's Siele de Louis XIV (1751). In this volume the author, without going over too much familiar ground, presents a view of English musical history from the Middle Ages.

Author : George Macaulay Trevelyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : 0141390069

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English Social History by George Macaulay Trevelyan Pdf

Social history, writes G.M. Trevelyan, is the history of a people with the politics left out. This book offers an unparalleled portrait of everyday English life, from the emergence of the English as a racial and cultural unit in Chaucer's day through six varied and kaleidoscopic centuries to 1901. Beneath the surface of the great changes in political and military history social change moves like an underground river; it is Trevelyan's unique achievement in this inspiring and evocative book to capture every tiny detail of its ebb and flow.

Author : Fritz Ringer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800733992

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Toward a Social History of Knowledge by Fritz Ringer Pdf

One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on a whole range of contemporary and historical debates about the relationship between ideas and their context, the role of education and middle-class consciousness, the social role of academics and intellectuals, and competing ideals of learning, science, and history.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : England
ISBN : 0140136061

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A Social History of England by Asa Briggs Pdf

Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.

Author : Joey Lee Dillard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110105845

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Toward a Social History of American English by Joey Lee Dillard Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : England
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson Pdf

Author : R. H. Tawney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107492271

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Social History and Literature by R. H. Tawney Pdf

This book contains the seventh annual lecture of the National Book League, delivered in 1949 by economic historian and social critic R. H. Tawney. Tawney concerns himself with no less a topic than the significance of great literature for the student of social history, and connects the social, historical and literary aspects of European civilization.

Author : Len W. Lanham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783872762108

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The Standard in South African English and Its Social History by Len W. Lanham Pdf

This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have brought about the present state. The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
ISBN : UCSC:32106009962652

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The English Alehouse by Peter Clark Pdf

Author : Francois Bedarida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136097249

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A Social History of England 1851-1990 by Francois Bedarida Pdf

In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single European market. Making full use of the Annales school of French historiography, Bédarida takes his inquiry beyond conventional views to penetrate the attitudes, behaviour and psychology of the British people.