Title: Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Abstract:A Note on Texts and Letter FormsPreface to the Revised EditionIntroduction: Finding English, Finding Us1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The ...A Note on Texts and Letter FormsPreface to the Revised EditionIntroduction: Finding English, Finding Us1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The Language of Old English Literature3. In This Year: The Politics of Language and the End of Old English4. From Kingdom to Realm: Middle English in a French World5. Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English6. I Is as Ille as a Millere Are Ye: Middle English Dialects7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose9. I Do, I Will: Shakespeare's English10. A Universal Hubbub Wild: New Words and Worlds in Early Modern English11. Visible Speech: The Orthoepists and the Origins of Standard English12. A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English15. Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom16. Ready for the Funk: African American English and Its Impact17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest: The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Readers18. Listening to Private Ryan: War and Language19. He Speaks in Your Voice: Everybody's English20. Faith in English: Vernacular Devotion and Biblical TranslationEpilogue: The Talk and the TextAppendix: English Sounds and Their RepresentationGlossaryReferences and Further ReadingAcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments to the Revised EditionIndexRead More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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