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Author : Robert McCrum,William Cran,Robert MacNeil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : English language
ISBN : 0571171427
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988-12-12
Category : English language
ISBN : 0517639955
Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue.
Author : Joseph Piercy
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843179238
The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia. Chronologically ordered and divided into six main sections covering pre-Roman and Latin influences, the ascent of Old English, and the succession of Middle English, Early Modern and then Late Modern English to today's global language, this fascinating book also explores such factors as the history of the printing press, the works of Chaucer, the evolution of The American Dictionary of the English Language - commonly known as Webster's - and the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary, to the use of slang in today's speech and the coming of electronic messaging: language for a post-modern world.The Story of English is a great book for any lover not just of English, but of the history and development of language.
Author : Philip Gooden
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781623653040
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world's lingua franca. Worldwide, some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million as a second language. A staggering one billion people are believed to be learning it. English is the premier international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, and diplomacy and also on the Internet. It has been one of the official languages of the United Nations since its founding in 1945. It is considered by many good judges to be well on the way to becoming the world's first universal language Author Philip Gooden tells the story of the English language in all its richness and variety. From the intriguing origins and changing definitions of common words such as OK, berserk, curfew, cabal, and pow-wow, to the massive transformations wrought in the vocabulary and structure of the language by Anglo-Saxon and Norman conquest, through to the literary triumphs of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the works of Shakespeare. The Story of English is a fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformation, and one that is accessibly and authoritatively told by an author in perfect command of his material.
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847654595
Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering).
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780141900704
When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'? This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.
Author : N. Krishnaswamy,Lalitha Krishnaswamy
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 8175963123
With globalization, English has become an economic necessity and Indians have realized that they have the 'English advantage' over many other countries like China and Japan. India has shed its colonial complexes towards English and has come to terms with the language; Indians have separated the English language from the English. The Story of English in India presents historical facts in a socio-cultural framework. The book is a must for all teachers and students of English; it will be useful for all those interested in the politics of language and education in India. Key issues discussed: - Are we indebted to the British for introducing English in India? - What was the role of English during India's struggle for freedom? - Has English united India? - Has English divided India into two - the English knowing classes who govern and the non-English knowing masses who are governed? - Will English ever become an Indian tongue spoken in the great Indian language bazaar? - What will be the future of major Indian languages in the wake of the English onslaught? Will it end in linguistic imperialism and cultural colonialism?
Author : Neil Besner,David Staines
Publisher : Oxford University Press Canada
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195406834
This anthology for university courses (general literature and also the short story) presents the short-story form through its classic texts in the English language. An unusual feature of the selection is that almost all of the thirty writers included are represented by two stories, which will permit in-depth comparisons of stories and stylistic analysis. Half the stories are by men, half by women, and one-third of the writers are Canadian.
Author : Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:828402271
Author : Robert McCrum,Robert MacNeil,William Cran
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 0571275087
Presents the history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent and fast-growing international language.
Author : Kel Richards
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781742241906
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.
Author : Helene Adeline Guerber
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1010614916
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Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781611450071
A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Panpac Education Pte Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English language
ISBN : 9812800166
Author : Donald L. Brake
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : PSU:000064234229
Presents the history of the translation of the Bible into English, from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century.