The Life and Times of the English Language: The History of Our Marvellous Native Tongue - Couverture rigide

Claiborne, Robert

 
9780747506553: The Life and Times of the English Language: The History of Our Marvellous Native Tongue
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0747506558 ISBN 13 : 9780747506553
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1990

Synopsis

The English language is regarded as the most wonderful communicative instrument in the world. It owes its greatness to a uniquely rich, variegated and expressive vocabulary - some 500,000 words, more than three times as many as any other language. Yet how has the language developed?. The story of where the words originated is as remarkable as the vocabulary itself - the "pae jamahs" we sleep in come from Persia via India, the "chocolati" we eat from Mexico via Spain. These sources reveal the lives of the people who made English what it is. They prove that words can tell us how our linguistic ancestors lived, where they travelled and with whom they came into contact.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0747506558
ISBN 13 
9780747506553
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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ISBN 10 :  0747509883 ISBN 13 :  9780747509882
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1991
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