Is English Changing

Author : Steve Kleinedler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351114059

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Is English Changing? by Steve Kleinedler Pdf

Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a lively and concise introduction to language change, refuting commonly held misconceptions about language evolution as we understand it. Showing that English, like all living languages, has historically changed and continues to change, this book: analyzes developments in the lexicon, the way words are spoken or written, and the way in which speakers and writers use words; offers a basic overview of the major subfields of linguistics, including phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, all viewed through the prism of language change; discusses change over time with examples from Old English, Middle English, and Modern English; reinforces important concepts with examples from other languages, including Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; clearly defines key terms and includes advice on rules, usage, and style, as well as ample annotated further reading and activities throughout. Aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book is essential reading for those studying this topic for the first time.

Author : Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107086869

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The Changing English Language by Marianne Hundt,Sandra Mollin,Simone E. Pfenninger Pdf

Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Author : Elizabeth Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000652314

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Making Sense of "Bad English" by Elizabeth Peterson Pdf

Why is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent or refined, whereas others are deemed uneducated, coarse, or inappropriate? Making Sense of "Bad English" is an accessible introduction to attitudes and ideologies towards the use of English in different settings around the world. Outlining how perceptions about what constitutes "good" and "bad" English have been shaped, this book shows how these principles are based on social factors rather than linguistic issues and highlights some of the real-life consequences of these perceptions. Features include: an overview of attitudes towards English and how they came about, as well as real-life consequences and benefits of using "bad" English; explicit links between different English language systems, including child’s English, English as a lingua franca, African American English, Singlish, and New Delhi English; examples taken from classic names in the field of sociolinguistics, including Labov, Trudgill, Baugh, and Lambert, as well as rising stars and more recent cutting-edge research; links to relevant social parallels, including cultural outputs such as holiday myths, to help readers engage in a new way with the notion of Standard English; supporting online material for students which features worksheets, links to audio and news files, further examples and discussion questions, and background on key issues from the book. Making Sense of "Bad English" provides an engaging and thought-provoking overview of this topic and is essential reading for any student studying sociolinguistics within a global setting.

Author : Gretchen McCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735210950

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Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Author : David Graddol,Dick Leith,Joan Swann,Martin Rhys,Julia Gillen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000155310

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Changing English by David Graddol,Dick Leith,Joan Swann,Martin Rhys,Julia Gillen Pdf

Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day. It focuses on the radical changes that have taken place in the structure of English over a millennium and a half, detailing the influences of migration, colonialism and many other historical, social and cultural phenomena. Expert authors illustrate and analyze dialects, accents and the shifting styles of individual speakers as they respond to changing circumstances. The reader is introduced to many key debates relating to the English language, illustrated by specific examples of data in context. Including key material retained from the earlier bestselling book, English: History, Diversity and Change, this edition has been thoroughly reorganized and updated with entirely new material. Changing English: explains basic concepts, easily located through a comprehensive index includes contributions by experts in the field, such as David Crystal, David Graddol, Dick Leith, Lynda Mugglestone and Joan Swann contains a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters. Changing English makes an essential contribution to the field of English language studies.

Author : Marshall W. Alcorn
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 080932427X

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Changing the Subject in English Class by Marshall W. Alcorn Pdf

Alcorn (English and humanities, George Washington U.) argues that the gradual shift in the teaching of composition from a curriculum that looked at literature as an attempt to represent reality to one that stresses the subjectivity of the student in decoding texts has incorporated an insufficiently complex understanding of subjectivity. The current cultural studies programs stress political ideas over expressive writing, but Alcorn argues that political ideas will never be right unless there is attention to self-expression. Basing his work in the conceptual world of psychoanalytic theory, he outlines a cultural-studies practice that develops anti-ideological identity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139619264

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English as a Contact Language by Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt Pdf

Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.

Author : Brian Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:750618227

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The Changing English Language by Brian Foster Pdf

Author : Mitali P. Wong,M. Yousuf Saeed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498574082

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The Changing World of Contemporary South Asian Poetry in English by Mitali P. Wong,M. Yousuf Saeed Pdf

This collection uses a transnational approach to study contemporary English-language poetry composed by poets of South Asian origin. The poetry contains themes, motifs, and critiques of social changes, and the contributors seek to encapsulate the continually changing environments that these contemporary poets write about. The contributors show that English-language poetry in South Asia is hybridized with imagery and figurative language adapted from the vernacular languages of South Asia. The chapters examine women’s issues, concerns of marginalized groups—such as the Dalit community and the people of Northeastern India—, social changes in Sri Lanka, the changing society of Pakistan, and the formation of the identity in the several nation states that resulted from the British colony of India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 971233225X

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Study Skills in English for a Changing World' 2001 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712332268

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Study Skills in English for a Changing World Tm' 2001 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Farooq A. Kperogi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781433129261

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Glocal English by Farooq A. Kperogi Pdf

Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world’s two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world’s fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora. Using contemporary examples from the mass media and the author’s rich experiential data, the book isolates the peculiar structural, grammatical, and stylistic characteristics of Nigerian English and shows its similarities as well as its often humorous differences with British and American English. Although Nigerian English forms the backdrop of the book, it will benefit teachers of English as a second or foreign language across the world. Similarly, because it presents complex grammatical concepts in a lucid, personal narrative style, it is useful both to a general and a specialist audience, including people who study anthropology and globalization. The true-life experiential encounters that the book uses to instantiate the differences and similarities between Nigerian English and native varieties of English will make it valuable as an empirical data mine for disciplines that investigate the movement and diffusion of linguistic codes across the bounds of nations and states in the age of globalization.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106011050595

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Watching English Change by Laurie Bauer Pdf

A ground-breaking text which examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard-English and takes an historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred. It includes many useful exercises, notes and discussion points.

Author : R. L. Trask,Robert Lawrence Trask
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Linguistic change
ISBN : 9780415085632

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Language Change by R. L. Trask,Robert Lawrence Trask Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Simeon Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015050633596

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Changing English by Simeon Potter Pdf