The Oxford History of English

überarbeitete Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-966016-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 761 g

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world.

In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its varied progress nationally, regionally, and throughout the world. With scholarship at once impeccable and approachable, the authors describe and
explain the constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar of English. This is a book for everyone interested in the language, present and past.

Zielgruppe

Students and the general public worldwide interested in the history of English. The ideal accompiment to all courses in the history of English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mugglestone, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lynda Mugglestone: Introduction: A History of the English Language
1: Terry Hoad: Preliminaries: before English
2: Susan Irvine: Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
3: Matthew Townend: Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
4: Marilyn Corrie: Middle English - dialects and diversity
5: Jeremy Smith: From Middle to Early Modern English
6: April McMahon: Restructuring Renaissance English
7: Terrtu Nevalainen: Mapping Change in Tudor English
8: Paula Blank: The Babel of Renaissance English
9: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Speakers and Writers of Eighteenth-century English
10: Lynda Mugglestone: English in the Nineteenth Century
11: Clive Upton: Modern Regional English in the British Isles
12: Richard W. Bailey: English Among the Languages
13: Tom McArthur: English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
14: David Crystal: Into the Twenty-first Century
TImeline
Table of Phonetic Equivalents
Glossary
References
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mugglestone, Lynda
Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.