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The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
Lynda Mugglestone
£25.00
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The Oxford History of English
Revised Edition
Edited by Lynda Mugglestone
624 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-966016-2
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Paperback
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29 November 2012
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- Most up-to-date readable and authoritative single-volume history of English
- Covers all the varieties of English throughout the world
- Traces English back to its Indo-European roots
- Reset and revised edition competitively priced below all its rivals
New to this edition - Chapter featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world
Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world.
In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of
English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its varied progress nationally, regionally, and throughout the world. With scholarship at once impeccable and approachable, the authors describe and explain the constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar of English. This is a book for everyone interested in the language, present and past.Readership: Students and the general public worldwide interested in the history of English. The ideal accompaniment to all courses in the history of English.
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Edited by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of History of English, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.
Contributors:
Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College
Late Richard W. Bailey
Paula Blank, College of William and Mary
Marilyn Corrie, University College London
David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor
Terry Hoad, St Peter's College
Susan Irvine, University College London
April McMahon, Aberystwyth University
Tom McArthur, Institute of Linguistics, London
Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden
Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow
Matthew Townend, University of York
Clive Upton,
University of Leeds
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"For a scholarly book pursuing English from its hazy origins to the internet, this book provides much pleasure." - The Independent
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Lynda Mugglestone: Introduction: A History of the English Language
1: Terry Hoad: Preliminaries: before English
2: Susan Irvine: Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
3: Matthew Townend: Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
4: Marilyn Corrie: Middle English - dialects and diversity
5: Jeremy Smith: From Middle to Early Modern English
6: April McMahon: Restructuring Renaissance English
7: Terrtu Nevalainen: Mapping Change in Tudor English
8: Paula Blank: The Babel of Renaissance English
9: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Speakers and Writers of Eighteenth-century English
10: Lynda Mugglestone: English in the Nineteenth Century
11: Clive Upton: Modern Regional English in the British Isles
12: Richard W. Bailey: English Among the Languages
13: Tom McArthur: English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
14: David Crystal: Into the Twenty-first Century
TImeline
Table of Phonetic Equivalents
Glossary
References
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index
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