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A Cultural History of the English Language - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 3: The English Language Series

Knowles, Gerry

 
9780340676806: A Cultural History of the English Language
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0340676809 ISBN 13 : 9780340676806
Editeur : Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gerry Knowles eas formerly Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0340676809
ISBN 13 
9780340676806
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
190
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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