Unlocking The History Of English

Author : Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246998

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Unlocking the History of English by Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck Pdf

This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms, functions and audiences. They feature both quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use, often in relation to trends of language advice in such metalinguistic works as grammars, spelling books and usage guides. The authors showcase work on pragmatics and prescriptivism (understatement between Middle and Late Modern English, capitalization of common nouns from Early to Late Modern English and the use of stigmatized grammatical variants in eighteenth-century plays), specific text types (case studies of political, legal and medical English) and the language of late modern letters (diachronic stylistic changes, letter-copying practices, the role of letter-writing manuals and changing spelling practices). This volume will be of interest to those working on pragmatics, prescriptivism and sociolinguistics of English, historical linguistics, language change, computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.

Author : Sean Mcconville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317373179

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A History of English Prison Administration by Sean Mcconville Pdf

This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh difficulties, and brought different types of people into the administration and management of prisons, whose interests, values and expectations in turn often had significant effects upon penal ideas and their practical applications. Special attention has been paid to the study of recruitment, the work and influence of gaolers, keepers, governors, and highly administrative officials. This comprehensive book will be of interest to students of criminology and history.

Author : Brian A. Pavlac
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119249436

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Game of Thrones versus History by Brian A. Pavlac Pdf

Since it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO’s history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice and Fire, the sprawling saga on which the show is based. Aside from the fantastical elements, Game of Thrones really does mirror historic events and bloody battles of medieval times—but how closely? Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood is a collection of thought-provoking essays by medieval historians who explore how the enormously popular HBO series and fantasy literature of George R. R. Martin are both informed by and differ significantly from real historical figures, events, beliefs, and practices of the medieval world. From a variety of perspectives, the authors delve into Martin’s plots, characterizations, and settings, offering insights into whether his creations are historical possibilities or pure flights of fantasy. Topics include the Wars of the Roses, barbarian colonizers, sieges and the nature of medieval warfare, women and agency, slavery, celibate societies in Westeros, myths and legends of medieval Europe, and many more. While life was certainly not a game during the Middle Ages, Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood reveals how a surprising number of otherworldly elements of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy are rooted deeply in the all-too-real world of medieval Europe. Find suggested readings, recommended links, and more from editor Brian Pavlac at gameofthronesversushistory.com.

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:HNZW1L

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Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army by Francis Grose Pdf

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590444109

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Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army, from the Conquest by Francis Grose Pdf

Author : Sarah Goldsmith,Sheryllynne Haggerty,Karen Harvey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000896527

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Letters and the Body, 1700–1830 by Sarah Goldsmith,Sheryllynne Haggerty,Karen Harvey Pdf

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This research includes personal letters exchanged among family and friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs. Part I explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body, the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by letter writers and the means through which these imagined sensations were conveyed. Part II examines the letter as a material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters. Part III focuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks and build a ‘body politic’. This interdisciplinary volume centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies, cultural history and literature.

Author : A. P. Cowie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191558078

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The Oxford History of English Lexicography by A. P. Cowie Pdf

These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.

Author : Richard M. Hogg,Norman Francis Blake,John Algeo,R. W. Burchfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aneuploidy
ISBN : 0521264790

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The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in North America by Richard M. Hogg,Norman Francis Blake,John Algeo,R. W. Burchfield Pdf

The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.

Author : Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027214727

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Unlocking the History of English by Luisella Caon,Moragh S. Gordon,Thijs Porck Pdf

The articles in this volume deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms, functions, and audiences. They feature quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use, often in relation to trends of language advice.

Author : Hamdi bin Hamza Al-Juhani
Publisher : دار التاليف للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786030007547

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Unlocking the Secrets of Dhul-Qarnain (Akhenaten) and Yăjouj and Măjouj (Gog & Magog) by Hamdi bin Hamza Al-Juhani Pdf

"What are the fundamental differences between Alexander the Great and Dhul-Qarnayn? Is Dhul-Qarnayn (Akhenaten) the believing man from the family of Pharaoh mentioned in the Qur’an? What was the path of Dhul-Qarnayn’s historical journey? Where is the setting sun located? Where is the sunrise located? Where is the country between the two dams located...the site of the reclamation built by Dhul-Qarnayn? Who are Gog and Magog? In this book, ""Unveiling the Secrets of Dhul-Qarnayn: Akhenaten and Gog and Magog"" by Hamdi bin Hamza Al-Suraiseri Al-Jahani, a former member of the Saudi Shura Council, the author was able to decipher the identity of Dhul-Qarnayn by building his facts on historical documents and evidence, and a careful and meticulous reading of ancient history. The author surprises readers by revealing that Dhul-Qarnayn was none other than Akhenaten, the monotheistic pharaoh of Egypt, and he also reveals the secrets of the people of Gog and Magog, their origin, time, and homeland.

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Wales
ISBN : 9780198746034

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Writing Welsh History by Huw Pryce Pdf

The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.

Author : Carl R. Woodring,James Shapiro
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0585041555

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The Columbia History of British Poetry by Carl R. Woodring,James Shapiro Pdf

The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve centuries, offering the greatest diversity of poetic voices in any anthology of its kind. From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's haunting odes to T.S. Eliot's mediations on the conditions of modern life, the collection contains many of the best-loved treasures of British poetry. Longer and much-celebrated poems that rarely find their way into anthologies-including Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"-claim a place in this collection. Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Killigrew, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans are among dozens of women writers renowned in their own day and now restored to their rightful prominence. Scottish, Welsh, and Irish poets often excluded from anthologies of British poetry are here as well, including such extraordinary voices as Lady Grisell Baillie, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Seamus Heaney. The finest contemporary poets are fully represented also, from Thom Gunn to Eavan Boland. The result is an amazingly rich and wide-ranging conversation among British poets that transcends the boundaries of time and place. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, the team scholars who edited The Columbia History of British Poetry, have written incisive introductions to the careers of the poets, making this the most accessible and comprehensive anthology of British verse in print. Covering the new and the ancient, the classic and the rediscovered, this generous volume reimagines the horizons of British poetry.

Author : Catherine Bates,Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780198830696

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English by Catherine Bates,Patrick Cheney Pdf

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Author : Sarah M S. Pereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600107747

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Scenes and sketches from English Church history by Sarah M S. Pereira Pdf

Author : afterwards PEREIRA CLARKE (Sarah M. S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026417916

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Scenes and Sketches from English Church History by afterwards PEREIRA CLARKE (Sarah M. S.) Pdf