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Author | : Jan Svartvik |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-12-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781403918307 |
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This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago and follows up by showing the geographical spread of the language and its increasing diversity. Finally, it looks at the present state of English as a global language and problems and uncertainties of its future. Students interested in the history of the English language will be well-served by this valuable introduction.
Author | : Jan Svartvik |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0230596169 |
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This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.
Author | : Jan Svartvik |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Jan Svartvik |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1137160071 |
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This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language.
Author | : Vyvyane Loh |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780393326543 |
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"Dramatic....One of the most ambitious and accomplished debut novels in recent memory."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
Author | : Gaston Dorren |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0802146724 |
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“Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author | : Jennifer Richards |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192536702 |
Download Voices and Books in the English Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice—and tones of voice especially—from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others' voices, as well as manage and exploit their readers' voices. The volume offers fresh readings of key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers including Anne Askew, William Baldwin, and Thomas Nashe. It rethinks what a printed book can be by searching the printed page for vocal cues and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process. Renaissance printed books have often been misheard and a preoccupation with their materiality has led to a focus on them as objects. However, Renaissance printed books are alive with possible voices, but we will not understand this while we focus on the silent reader.
Author | : Barbara McAfee |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2011-10-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1605099228 |
Download Full Voice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vocal expression is a part of nearly everyone's workday, yet most of us are unaware of how much influence our voice exerts over our effectiveness. McAfee's work shows how we can deliberately marshal the power of our voices to support our intentions, aspirations, and relationships.
Author | : Miranda Roszkowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800181021 |
Download 100 Voices Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Saraciea J. Fennell |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 125076341X |
Download Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community. The bestselling and award-winning contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Cristina Arreola, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Naima Coster, Natasha Diaz, Saraciea J. Fennell, Kahlil Haywood, Zakiya Jamal, Janel Martinez, Jasminne Mendez, Meg Medina, Mark Oshiro, Julian Randall, Lilliam Rivera, and Ibi Zoboi.