A history of the English language /
What is a history of the English language? To a native speaker, the answer to this question might seem obvious: the story, from beginning to end, of the language that we use every day. But a history of the English language raises the prickly question of what one means by English. Who speaks "tr...
| Основен автор: | Blake, N. F. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
1996.
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Съдържание:
- 1. What is a History of English?
- 2. Background Survey
- 3. Before Alfred
- 4. The First English Standard
- 5. The Aftermath of the First Standard
- 6. Interregnum: Fragmentation and Regrouping
- 7. Political, Social and Pedagogical Background to the New Standard
- 8. Language Change from 1400 to 1660
- 9. Establishing the Standard within Social Norms
- 10. Emancipation, Education and Empire
- 11. World Domination and Growing Variation.