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Author | : Richard Hogg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2008-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139451294 |
Download A History of the English Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
Author | : George Philip Krapp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Ohmann |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780819562944 |
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A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.
Author | : David B. Quinn |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2023-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000963802 |
Download England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of cartography and the Vinland Map controversy), Professor Quinn presents circumstantial indications pointing to 1481 as the date or the discovery of America by Bristol voyagers – fishermen seeking new sources of cod, and merchant sailors with maps carrying promise of unexploited Atlantic islands. Whereas England did little to follow up her early lead, Quinn demonstrates that English initiatives from the 1580s onward, though slow, were of great importance. He brings to life the men involved in a variety of rash and heroic experiments in colonization and casts new light on their fates. He makes it clear that it was this very profusion of trial and error and trail again, as well as the conviction that settlement in temperate latitudes in North America could be effective if tenaciously enough sought, that enabled the English to strike and maintain routes in their new American world. This book will be of interest to students of English history, American history, colonial history and naval history.
Author | : Edwin H. Cates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : British |
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Includes information on the reasons for English colonization in America, the colonial period, English immigration from the Revolution to the present, and famous English-Americans in many fields.
Author | : J. L. Dillard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317899598 |
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This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : 1784161861 |
Download Made in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how they were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the words G-string, blockbuster, poker and snafu. 'A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday
Author | : John Andrew Doyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Henry Howard Brownell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Karen Ordahl Kupperman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801482823 |
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In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain--hopeful and fearful--about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Each group was curious about the other, and interpreted through their own standards and traditions. At the same time both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture.These meetings and early relationships are recorded in a wide variety of sources. Native people maintained oral traditions about the encounters, and these were written down by English recorders at the time of contact and since; many are maintained to this day. English venturers, desperate to make readers at home understand how difficult and potentially rewarding their enterprise was, wrote constantly of their own experiences and observations and transmitted native lore. Kupperman analyzes all these sources in order to understand the true nature of these early years, when English venturers were so fearful and dependent on native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain.Building on the research in her highly regarded book Settling with the Indians, Kupperman argues convincingly that we must see both Indians and English as active participants in this unfolding drama.