Oxford Companion To The English Language

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English philology
ISBN : 9780192806376

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur,Roshan McArthur Pdf

From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

Author : Tom McArthur,Jacqueline Lam-McArthur,Lise Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191073878

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Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur,Jacqueline Lam-McArthur,Lise Fontaine Pdf

The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage. This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair. It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:812774515

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The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur Pdf

Author : Tom McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474867960

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur Pdf

Author : Sir Paul Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015010861667

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Sir Paul Harvey Pdf

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108423595

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal Pdf

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780192122711

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English by Jenny Stringer Pdf

Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521481309

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The English Languages by Thomas Burns McArthur Pdf

Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190627881

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Author : Haruko Momma,Michael Matto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470657935

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A Companion to the History of the English Language by Haruko Momma,Michael Matto Pdf

A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars. An accessible reference to the history of the English language Comprises more than sixty essays written by leading international scholars Aids literature students in incorporating language study into their work Includes an historical survey of the English language, from its Germanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British and American English Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historical publications Introduces the latest scholarship in the field

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192800426

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton Pdf

Searchable database of information culled from the 1996 paperback edition of the Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English.

Author : Eugene Benson,William Toye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195411676

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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by Eugene Benson,William Toye Pdf

Contains over 1,100 entries covering mainly English-Canadian literature, and including new author and title entries, as well as extensive genre surveys.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur,Jacqueline Kam-mei Lam,Lise Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English language
ISBN : 0191744387

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The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Thomas Burns McArthur,Jacqueline Kam-mei Lam,Lise Fontaine Pdf

This new edition of a landmark Companion notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair.

Author : Tom McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198607717

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The Oxford Guide to World English by Tom McArthur Pdf

The Oxford Guide to World English takes up where its 'mother book', the Oxford Companion to the English Language, left off. Organized by continent, there are chapters on Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica. Tom McArthur covers the world's many varieties of English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are geographically far apart, as with: West African English and African American English; Scots, Ulster Scots, the Scotch-Irish migrations to Appalachia in the US, and country and western music; and aspects of Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Falklands English as southern-hemisphere varieties. The end result is a book that, while invaluable to the specialist, is accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, and covers a vast spread of 'Englishes' from Brummie, Cockney, Estuary, and RP in the UK to New York and New Orleans speech in the US and such other varieties as Indian English, Maori English, and West African Pidgin. This hugely comprehensive work provides a fascinating and novel survey of English as both a pre-eminent 'standard' world language and a family of vigorously diverse regional varieties.

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000052122490

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble Pdf

Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.