The Stories of EnglishHarry N. Abrams, 9 sept. 2004 - 608 pagini The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard English. Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and 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 globe. Interwoven within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world as well as in literary classics from The Canterbury Tales to The Lord of the Rings. For the first time, regional speech and writing is placed center stage. This significant shift in perspective enables the reader to understand the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language, and provides an argument for the way English should be taught in the future. |
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... logical and coherent , and conscious effort is made to be relevant , clear , and precise . This is a message which prescriptive grammarians and purist commentators have been drumming into us for the past 250 years . It may take another ...
... logical and coherent , and conscious effort is made to be relevant , clear , and precise . This is a message which prescriptive grammarians and purist commentators have been drumming into us for the past 250 years . It may take another ...
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... logic , law , cosmology , medicine , and mathematics . A renewal of interest in the Classics and the nature of ancient learning increased the prestige of Latin , but other languages - notably , Arabic and Greek - also received fresh ...
... logic , law , cosmology , medicine , and mathematics . A renewal of interest in the Classics and the nature of ancient learning increased the prestige of Latin , but other languages - notably , Arabic and Greek - also received fresh ...
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... logic a value which is indeed sometimes implemented in English . When someone says My childhood was not unhappy , the meaning is close to My childhood was happy , though the negative phrasing suggests some degree of qualification ' It ...
... logic a value which is indeed sometimes implemented in English . When someone says My childhood was not unhappy , the meaning is close to My childhood was happy , though the negative phrasing suggests some degree of qualification ' It ...
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The origins of Old English | 15 |
The Celtic language puzzle | 29 |
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