Description |
xxxiii, 690 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 54 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 54
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Contents |
History, English, language : studying HEL today / Michael Matto and Haruko Momma -- History of the history of the English language : how has the subject been studied? / Thomas Cable -- Essential linguistics / Mary Blockley -- Phonology : segmental histories / Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell -- History of English morphology / Robert McColl Millar -- History of Enlgish syntax / Olga Fischer -- History of the English lexicon / Geoffrey Hughes -- History of English prosody / Geoffrey Russom -- Dictionaries today : what can we do with them? / Reinhard R. K. Hartmann -- English onomasiological dictionaries and thesauri / Werner Hüllen -- Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary / Charlotte Brewer -- English as an Indo-European language / Philip Baldi -- English as a Germanic language / R. D. Fulk -- Early Old English (up to 899) / Daniel Donoghue -- Late Old English (899-1066) / Mechthild Gretsch -- Topics in Old English dialects / Lucia Kornexl -- Early Middle English (1066-ca. 1350) / Thorlac Turville-Petre -- Late MIddle English (ca. 1350-1485) / Seth Lerer -- Varieties of Middle English / Jeremy J. Smith -- Early Modern English (1485-1660) / Terttu Nevalainen -- Varieties of early Modern English / Jonathan Hope -- British English in the long eighteenth century (1660-1830) / Carey McIntosh -- British English since 1830 / Richard W. Bailey -- Rise of received pronunciation / Lynda Mugglestone -- American English to 1865 / David Simpson -- American English since 1865 / Walt Wolfram -- American English dialects / Gavin Jones -- Early Modern English print culture / John N. King -- Issues of gender in Modern English / Deborah Cameron -- Class, ethnicity, and the formation of "standard English" / Tony Crowley -- Transplantation of American English in Philippine soil / Andrew Gonzales -- English, Latin, and the teaching of rhetoric / Michael Matto -- English in mass communications : news discourse and the language of journalism / Philippa K. Smith and Allan Bell -- English in Wales / Marion Löffler -- English in Scotland / J. Derrick McClure -- English in Ireland / Terence Patrick Dolan -- English in Canada / John Edwards -- Australian and New Zealand English / Pam Peters -- South Asian English / Kamal K. Sridhar -- English in the Caribbean / Donald Winford -- English in Africa / Alamin M. Mazuri -- Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition / Fred C. Robinson -- "In swich englissh as he kan" : Chaucer's literary language / John F. Plummer -- Shakespeare's literary language / Adam N. McKeown -- Jane Austen's literary English / Mary Poovey -- Joyce's English / Laurent Milesi -- Faulkner's language / Noel Polk -- Twixt the Twain : East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-tongue / Tabish Khair -- Toni Morrison : the struggle for the word / Justine Tally -- Migration and motivation in the development of African American vernacular English / Mary B. Zeigler -- Latino varieties of English / Robert Bayley -- Teaching English to native speakers : the subject matter of composition (1970-2005) / Mary Soliday -- Earning as well as learning a language : English and the post-colonial teacher / Eugene Chen Eoyang -- Creoles and Pidgins / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- World Englishes in world contexts / Braj B. Kachru -- Style and stylistics / David L. Hoover -- Corpus-based linguistic approaches to the history of English / Anne Curzan -- Sociolinguistics / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Cognitive linguistics / Dirk Geeraerts |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Also available online, via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online |
Subject |
English language -- History.
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Author |
Momma, H.
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Matto, Michael.
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ebrary, Inc.
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LC no. |
2007046445 |
ISBN |
9781405129923 alkaline paper |
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1405129921 alkaline paper |
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