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ISBN 10:  0340676809
ISBN 13: 978-0340676806
Author:   Gerry Knowles

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.
 
 

A Cultural History of the English Language 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 An outline history

1.2 Language and social change

1.3 Language, evolution and progress

1.4 Language and myth

1.5 Language superiority

2 The origins of the English language

2.1 The linguistic geography of Europe

2.2 Language in Britain

2.3 Early English

2.4 The survival of Celtic

2.5 The British people

3 English and Danish

3.1 Old English and Old Norse

3.2 Norse immigration

3.3 The Anglo-Saxon written tradition

3.4 English in the Danelaw

3.5 Norse influence on English

4 English and French

4.1 England and France

4.2 Literacy in the medieval period

4.3 The reemergence of English

4.4 English under French influence

4.5 Printing

5 English and Latin

5.1 The Lollards

5.2 Classical scholarship

5.3 Scholarly writing in English

5.4 The English Bible

5.5 The legacy of Latin

6 The language of England

6.1 Saxon English

6.2 The language arts

6.3 English spelling and pronunciation

6.4 The study of words

6.5 Elizabethan English

7 The language of revolution

7.1 The Norman yoke

7.2 The Bible and literacy

7.3 Language, ideology and the Bible

7.4 The intellectual revolution

7.5 The linguistic outcome of the English revolution

8 The language of learned and polite persons

8.1 Language and science

8.2 The improving language

8.3 The uniform standard

8.4 A controlled language

8.5 A bourgeois language

9 The language of Great Britain

9.1 The codification of Standard English

9.2 London and the provinces

9.3 English beyond England

9.4 English pronunciation

9.5 Change in Standard English

10 The language of empire

10.1 The international spread of English

10.2 The illustrious past

10.3 Working-class English

10.4 The standard of English pronunciation

10.5 Good English

11 Conclusion

11.1 The aftermath of empire

11.2 English in the media

11.3 Speech and language technology

11.4 The information superhighway

11.5 English in the future

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