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Book Synopsis A Plea for the Queen's English by : Henry Alford
Download or read book A Plea for the Queen's English written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Alford's A Plea for the Queen's English of 1864 (titled The Queen's English in later editions) was one of the earliest and most influential style manuals. It was not a comprehensive grammar, but instead moved through the language addressing topics Alford knew many people found difficult. Much of the content comprises his personal views on usage and abusage. Alford's manual shows little has changed since the 19th century. Section 26 looks at the incorrect insertion of the possessive apostrophe in plurals (Railway Station's for Railway Stations). The phenomenon is often referred to as the 'greengrocer's apostrophe' because of its frequency on market stall labels: potato's and carrot's, rather than the correct potatoes and carrots.
Book Synopsis The Queen's English by : Henry Alford
Download or read book The Queen's English written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Plea for the Queen's English by : Henry Alford
Download or read book A Plea for the Queen's English written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Language in History by : Dr Tony Crowley
Download or read book Language in History written by Dr Tony Crowley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere in 18th Century England, and he reveals how language is still being used in contemporary Ireland to articulate national and political aspirations and why the Irish language died. By bringing together linguistic and critical theory with his own sharp historical and political consciousness, Tony Crowley provides a new agenda for language study; one which acknowledges the fact that writing about history has always been determined by the historical context, and by issues of race, class and gender. Language in History represents a major contribution to the field, and an essential text for anyone interested in language, discourse and communication.
Book Synopsis STANFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE by :
Download or read book STANFORD STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: D-M by : Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: D-M written by Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Late Modern Englishes by : Keith Johnson
Download or read book The History of Late Modern Englishes written by Keith Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Late Modern Englishes provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from the beginning of the eighteenth century up until the present day. Taking an activity-based approach, this text ensures that students learn by engaging with the fascinating evolution of this language rather than by simply reading about it. The History of Late Modern Englishes: • Covers the development of Englishes around the world, not only in the British Isles, but also in the United States, Canada, India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia, as well as in other countries around the world where English is used as a lingua franca; • Accommodates the needs of both native and non-native speakers of English, with helpful features such as a glossary of key terms and questions to guide the reader through the book; • Includes activity sections and discussion points to help students engage with the text; • Is accompanied by e-resources which include further activities and additional coverage of points of interest in the book. Written by an experienced teacher and author, this book is an essential course textbook for any module on the history of English and the perfect accompaniment to the author’s own The History of Early English.
Book Synopsis Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Qui in Bibliotheca Collegii Sacrosanctae Et Individuae Trinitatis, Reginae Elizabethae, Juxta Dublin, Adservantur by :
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Book Synopsis The Stories of English by : David Crystal
Download or read book The Stories of English written by David Crystal and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of worldwide English in all its dialects, differences, and linguistic delights: “Informative . . . distinctive . . . a spirited celebration.” —The Guardian In this “well-informed and appealing” work (Publishers Weekly), David Crystal puts aside the usual focus on “standard” English, and instead provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies—in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Somerset, South Africa or Singapore. He reminds us that for several hundred wonderful years, there was no such thing as “incorrect” English—and traces the evolution of the language from a few thousand Anglo-Saxons to the 1.5 billion people who speak it today. Moving from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day, Crystal puts regional speech and writing at center stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of English. This significant shift in perspective enables us to understand for the first time the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language—and provides an argument too for the way English should be taught in the future. “A work of impeccable scholarship [that] could easily serve as a standard textbook for students of linguistics, but Mr. Crystal, reaching out to a more general audience, recognizes that even the most avid reader might flinch at the sections on Old Norse grammatical influence. Cleverly, he has sprinkled the book with little digressions, set apart in boxes, that address historical mysteries, strange loanwords, interesting etymologies and the like.” —The New York Times “Learned and often provocative . . . demonstrates repeatedly that common conceptions about language are often historically inaccurate—split infinitives bothered no one until recently (likewise sentence-ending prepositions).” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Simply the best introductory history of the English language family that we have. The plan of the book is ingenious, the writing lively, the exposition clear, and the scholarly standard uncompromisingly high.” —J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Book Synopsis Catalogue of a Collection of Books, Mostly Printed in London and on the Continent of Europe ... Forming the Library of Mr. Richard Grant White by : Richard Grant White
Download or read book Catalogue of a Collection of Books, Mostly Printed in London and on the Continent of Europe ... Forming the Library of Mr. Richard Grant White written by Richard Grant White and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University by :
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lexicographer's Dilemma by : Jack Lynch
Download or read book The Lexicographer's Dilemma written by Jack Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian Jack Lynch has discovered, every rule has a human history and the characters peopling his narrative are as interesting for their obsession as for their erudition: the sharp-tongued satirist Jonathan Swift, who called for a government-sponsored academy to issue rulings on the language; the polymath Samuel Johnson, who put dictionaries on a new footing; the eccentric Hebraist Robert Lowth, the first modern to understand the workings of biblical poetry; the crackpot linguist John Horne Tooke, whose bizarre theories continue to baffle scholars; the chemist and theologian Joseph Priestly, whose political radicalism prompted violent riots; the ever-crotchety Noah Webster, who worked to Americanize the English language; the long-bearded lexicographer James A. H. Murray, who devoted his life to a survey of the entire language in the Oxford English Dictionary; and the playwright George Bernard Shaw, who worked without success to make English spelling rational. Grammatical "rules" or "laws" are not like the law of gravity, or even laws against murder and theft--they're more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change. Witty, smart, full of passion for the world's language, Proper Words in Proper Places will entertain and educate in equal measure.
Book Synopsis Report - University of Illinois Board of Trustees by : University of Illinois (System). Board of Trustees
Download or read book Report - University of Illinois Board of Trustees written by University of Illinois (System). Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University by : Illinois Industrial University. Board of Trustees
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University written by Illinois Industrial University. Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University by : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Verbal Pitfalls by : Charles William Bardeen
Download or read book Verbal Pitfalls written by Charles William Bardeen and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue of the Public Library, of Fitchburg Mass by : Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Public Library, of Fitchburg Mass written by Fitchburg (Mass.). Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
