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The Language of the East Midlands and the Development of Standard English

Author : Willard James Rusch
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of the East Midlands and the Development of Standard English written by Willard James Rusch and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical lineage of Standard English has been a locus of scholarly research for over a century. And although the strong influence of the East Midlands dialect on Standard English has never been questioned, little agreement has been reached on how this dialect shaped the standardized language. This study takes a new approach to long-standing problems by recontextualizing the concept of a standard language in light of contemporary linguistic theory and through analyzing the vocalic sound systems of six texts that represent the East Midlands dialect from the early Old English period through 1250. Throughout the investigations into the separate texts, the problem of analyzing continuity between synchronic stages is emphasized, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

From Old English to Standard English

Author : Dennis Freeborn
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776604694
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book From Old English to Standard English written by Dennis Freeborn and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This practical and informative course book is a fascinating, visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century." "At the core of this substantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning." "Such a wealth of texts, as well as the structured activities and the various case studies, allow the volume to be used not only as a stimulating course text, guiding students through the analysis of data, but also as a comprehensive resource book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521029698
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 written by Laura Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.

East Midlands English

Author : Natalie Braber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501502379
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis East Midlands English by : Natalie Braber

Download or read book East Midlands English written by Natalie Braber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes.

From Old English to Standard English

Author : Dennis Freeborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230207685
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book From Old English to Standard English written by Dennis Freeborn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide further background information, with a supplementary website and new sections to outline the development of writing hands and provide a brief introduction to palaeography.

A Cultural History of the English Language

Author : Gerry Knowles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317859103
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the English Language written by Gerry Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110687577
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Multilingual Origins of Standard English written by Laura Wright and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.

Studies in English Language and Literature

Author : M. J. Toswell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134773390
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Studies in English Language and Literature written by M. J. Toswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributors illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt wisely'. Professor Stanley's own published work has shown the utility of wise scepticism as a critical stance; these papers presented to him apply similar approaches to a wide variety of texts, most of them in the field of Old or Middle English literature. The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context, which commonly entails a reconsideration of accepted assumptions. Consequently, new links are created here among the disciplines in medieval studies, based on various combinations of these scholarly applications. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English metre and syntax, Beowulf, the origins and development of standard English, the definitions of Old English words and their connotations, the styles and themes of Old English poems, Middle English poetry and prose, the post-medieval reception of medieval works and the styles, themes and sources of Old English poetry and prose. M.J. Toswell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.E.M. Tyler is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423590
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.

A history of English

Author : Míša Hejná
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103461
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book A history of English written by Míša Hejná and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does today’s English language come from? This book takes its readers on a journey back in time, from present-day varieties to the Old English of Beowulf and beyond. Written for students with little or no background in linguistics, and reflecting the latest scholarship, it showcases the variation and change present throughout the history of English, and includes numerous exercises and sample texts for every period. The reverse-chronological approach taken by this book sets it apart from all existing textbooks of the last fifty years. Innovative features also include its focus on variation, multilingualism and language contact, its use of texts from outside the literary canon, and its inclusion of case studies from syntax, sociophonetics and historical pragmatics.

The Cambridge History of the English Language

Author : Richard M. Hogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521264754
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the English Language written by Richard M. Hogg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-13 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of The Cambridge History of the English Language covers the Middle English Period, describing and analyzing developments in the languge from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.

Dictionary of Surrey English

Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110810
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Surrey English written by Graeme Davis and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialect of the English county of Surrey was recorded towards the end of the Victorian age by the antiquarian Granville Leveson Gower in a volume for the English Dialect Society. This present Dictionary makes available a new edition of his work, along with materials setting out the characteristics, history and current position of Surrey English. Today little remains of the traditional Surrey dialect, though those familiar with the county will nonetheless find echoes of it in the speech of many present inhabitants. In recent years the dialect has influenced the speech patterns of the Home Counties, and the new southern English standard has been influential worldwide. Surrey English has its place as one of the many distinctive forms of English worldwide, with its own unique words and forms of expression which are part of the rich heritage of the English language.

English Language

Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308080
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book English Language written by Jonathan Culpeper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics. Written by leading academics in the field, this text offers a firm grounding in linguistics and includes engaging insights into current research. It covers all the key areas of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, and core domains of study, comprising the history of the English language, regional and social variation, style and communication and interaction. Fresh material on research methods outlines key areas for consideration when carrying out a research project, and provides students with the framework they need to investigate linguistic phenomena for themselves. This is an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on English language and linguistics degree programmes. New to this Edition: - Seven new chapters covering topics such as second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and research methods - A number of chapters have been substantially revised, including those on World Englishes, Literacies in Cyberspace and TEFL, TESOL and Linguistics - Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest advances in the field

Multilingual Practices in Language History

Author : Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504940
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Multilingual Practices in Language History written by Päivi Pahta and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.

The Stories of English

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468306170
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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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

Routledge Library Editions: The English Language

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317415469
Total Pages : 7703 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: The English Language written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 7703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003. Together, the volumes cover key topics within the larger subject of the English Language, including grammar, dialect and the history of English. Written and edited by an international set of scholars, particular volumes employ comparisons with other languages such as French and German, whilst other volumes are devoted to specific English dialects such as Cockney and Canadian English, or English in general. This collection provides insight and perspective on various elements of the English language over a period of 70 years and demonstrates its enduring importance as a field of research.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (English Book)

Author : Prof. (Dr.) Sangeeta Arora
Publisher : Thakur Publication Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357552197
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (English Book) written by Prof. (Dr.) Sangeeta Arora and published by Thakur Publication Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read e-Book of "CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE" (English Book) for B.A. 5th Semester for all UP State Universities Common Minimum Syllabus as per NEP. ये ई-बुक्स खासतौर पर यूपी राज्य विश्वविद्यालय के लिए डिजाइन की गई हैं। जैसे भीम राव अंबेडकर विश्वविद्यालय आगरा, चौधरी चरण सिंह विश्वविद्यालय मेरठ, महात्मा गांधी काशी विद्या पीठ, वाराणसी, गोरखपुर विश्वविद्यालय, रज्जू भैया विश्वविद्यालय प्रयागराज, रुहेलखंड विश्वविद्यालय, बरेली, पूर्वांचल विश्वविद्यालय आदि।