A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.
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"[Fennell] gives an excellent account of the global spread of modern English." Times Higher Education Supplement
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A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English language.
Beginning with the pre-history of English, each chapter provides sociohistorical context, an overview of the major structural changes at each stage of the language and discussion of topics of particular sociolinguistic interest. Textual examples are given from a number of genres of writing including classical literature, letters, prose writings, modern popular literature and software documentation. The volume concludes with a discussion of the future of English language.
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This is an interesting text book for any student of English, or any individual interested in the History of English.
It is well-written and easy to grasp. It is a good beginning guide to the history of English and linguistics.
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There are a number of ways to tackle a linguistic history of this sort. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ahm ill, dialect geographers, nuclear syllable, morphological typology, consonant shift, traditional dialects, vowel shift, morphological endings, dialect boundaries, dialect features, language contact, dialect areas, million speakers, global language, modern dialects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, United States, American English, World War, British English, New York, New England, West Saxon, Old Norse, High German, New Zealand, South Africa, East Midlands, Great Britain, Great Vowel Shift, British Isles, South Asian, African-American Vernacular English, Estuary English, East India Company, Modern German, South Carolina, Australian English, East Africa New!
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There are a number of ways to tackle a linguistic history of this sort. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ahm ill, dialect geographers, nuclear syllable, morphological typology, consonant shift, traditional dialects, vowel shift, morphological endings, dialect boundaries, dialect features, language contact, dialect areas, million speakers, global language, modern dialects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Middle English, United States, American English, World War, British English, New York, New England, West Saxon, Old Norse, High German, New Zealand, South Africa, East Midlands, Great Britain, Great Vowel Shift, British Isles, South Asian, African-American Vernacular English, Estuary English, East India Company, Modern German, South Carolina, Australian English, East Africa New!
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- British Black English by David Sutcliffe on 4 pages
- The English Language (Opus Books) by R.W. Burchfield on 4 pages
- English as a World Language by Bailey on 4 pages
- The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 6: English in North America (Volume 6) by John Algeo on page 207, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography by Craig M. Carver in Front Matter, page 240, and Back Matter
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- The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Routledge Companions) by Carmen Llamas in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Liliane Haegeman in Front Matter
- Clinical Sociolinguistics (Language in Society) by Martin J. Ball on page 119
- An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Natsuko Tsujimura in Front Matter
- Northern English: A Social and Cultural History by Katie Wales in Back Matter
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