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Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Tom McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191073873
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Companion to the English Language written by Tom McArthur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century, including its distribution and varieties, its cultural, political, and educational impact worldwide, its nature, origins, and prospects, and its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, word-formation, and usage. This new edition notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging, among many others. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair. It is an invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language.

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192806378
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language written by Thomas Burns McArthur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192122711
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

The Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191744389
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to the English Language written by Thomas Burns McArthur and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a landmark Companion notably focuses on World Englishes, English language teaching, English as an international language, and the effect of technological advances on the English language. More than 130 new entries include African American English, British Sign Language, China English, digital literacy, multimodality, social networking, superdiversity, and text messaging. It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades, including Beryl (Sue) Atkins, Adam Kilgariff, and John Sinclair.

The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (812 download)

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192806874
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

Author : Tom McArthur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English

Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627883
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of English written by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

The Oxford Guide to World English

Author : Tom McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198607717
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to World English written by Tom McArthur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Guide to World English takes up where its 'mother book', the Oxford Companion to the English Language, left off. Organized by continent, there are chapters on Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, Oceania, and Antarctica. Tom McArthur covers the world's many varieties of English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are geographically far apart, as with: West African English and African American English; Scots, Ulster Scots, the Scotch-Irish migrations to Appalachia in the US, and country and western music; and aspects of Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Falklands English as southern-hemisphere varieties. The end result is a book that, while invaluable to the specialist, is accessible and appealing to the non-specialist, and covers a vast spread of 'Englishes' from Brummie, Cockney, Estuary, and RP in the UK to New York and New Orleans speech in the US and such other varieties as Indian English, Maori English, and West African Pidgin. This hugely comprehensive work provides a fascinating and novel survey of English as both a pre-eminent 'standard' world language and a family of vigorously diverse regional varieties.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

Author : Paul D. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Paul D. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar

Author : Bas Aarts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198755104
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar written by Bas Aarts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. Following an introduction from the editors, the volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, beginning with issues in grammar writing and methodology. Chapters in part II then examine the various theoretical approaches to grammar, such as cognitive, constructional, and generative approaches, followed by the chapters in part III, which comprehensively cover the different subdomains of grammar, including compounds, phrase structure, clause types, tense and aspect, and information structure. Part IV offers coverage of the relationship between grammar and other fields - lexis, phonology, meaning, and discourse - while the concluding part of the book investigates grammatical change over time, regional variation, and genre and literary variation. The handbook's wide-ranging coverage will appeal to researchers and students of English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards.

The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes

Author : Markku Filppula
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199777713
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes written by Markku Filppula and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on some features shared by 'Old' and 'New' varieties of English. 'Old' refers here to varieties of English spoken in Britain only, i.e. English English (EngE) and/or British English (BrE). They represent the longest-established varieties of English and are part of the hardcore of the L1 or the 'Inner Circle' of Englishes. 'New' varieties, in this context, are ones that have arisen in colonial or postcolonial contexts (the 'Outer Circle') and also comprise historically L2 varieties, such as Irish English, that have evolved as a result of language shift. This chapter examines three syntactic features that show similar developments in both New and Old varieties: the use of some modal auxiliaries, especially WILL/SHALL, some 'extended' uses of the progressive, and finally, combinations of these two, especially WILL/SHALL + be V-ing. All three display convergent developments that suggest a leading role for the New Englishes rather than the Old varieties"--

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Margaret Drabble and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this edition, existing entries have been updated and new entries have been added on contemporary writers such as Jim Crace and Pat Barker.

The English Languages

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521481304
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The English Languages written by Thomas Burns McArthur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198661479
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English by : Ian Hamilton

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English written by Ian Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.

Mehrwort-Cluster in der englischen Alltagskonversation

Author : Brigitta Mittmann
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823360896
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Mehrwort-Cluster in der englischen Alltagskonversation written by Brigitta Mittmann and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of the History of English

Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996385
Total Pages : 984 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of English written by Terttu Nevalainen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.