Cultural History of the English Language
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Edward III
English Dialect Dictionary
English Grammar
English Wordes
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Fam Ilies
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George III
Henry III
Information Superhighway
king's
London English
middle
Middle Class Speech
Modern Languages
Natural Standard
Norman Yoke
Offa's Dyke
Offa’s Dyke
Pop Stars
pronunciation
received
Rheims Bible
saxon
Sir John Cheke
Speech Recognition Device
Text Inferences
urban
Urban Dialects
Van Gorp
west
West Germanic
William III
Wynkyn De Worde
Product details
- ISBN 9781138144927
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research to relate major historical events to change in the language, in particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis, stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles. The book does not attempt to chronicle changes in syntax or pronunciation and spelling, but is designed to complement a corpus-based study of formal changes. The story of English is brought up to the late 1990s to include, amongst other things, discussions of Estuary English and the implications of the information superhighway.
Gerry Knowles eas formerly Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, UK.
