Inventing English a portable history of the language /
| Основен автор: | Lerer, Seth, 1955- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2007.
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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: finding English, finding us
- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry
- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature
- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English
- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world
- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English
- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects
- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English
- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose
- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English
- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English
- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English
- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary
- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English
- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English
- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom
- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact
- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers
- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language
- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.