A Companion to the History of the English Language

Herausgegeben von Momma, Haruko; Matto, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the History of the English Language addressesthe linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches tolanguage study. The first text to offer a complete survey of thefield, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leadinginternational scholars.

An accessible reference to the history of the Englishlanguage
Comprises more than sixty essays written by leadinginternational scholars
Aids literature students in incorporating language study intotheir work
Includes an historical survey of the English language, from itsGermanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British andAmerican English
Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historicalpublications
Introduces the latest scholarship in the field

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Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1230g
• ISBN-13: 9780470657935
• ISBN-10: 0470657936
• Artikelnr.: 32736089

Autorenporträt

Haruko Momma is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of The Composition of Old English Poetry (1997) and From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2009). Michael Matto is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Adelphi University. He has published articles on Old English language, literature, and culture, and is currently editing (with Greg Delanty) a collection of new literary translations of Old English poems (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgments xxii
Note on Phonetic Symbols and Orthography xxiv
A Timeline for HEL xxix
Part I Introduction 1
1 History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today 3
Michael Matto and Haruko Momma
2 History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been
Studied? 11
Thomas Cable
3 Essential Linguistics 18
Mary Blockley
Part II Linguistic Survey 25
4 Phonology: Segmental Histories 29
Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell
5 History of English Morphology 43
Robert McColl Millar
6 History of English Syntax 57
Olga Fischer
7 A History of the English Lexicon 69
Geoffrey Hughes
8 History of English Prosody 81
Geoffrey Russom
Part III English Semantics and Lexicography 89
9 Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them? 93
Reinhard R. K. Hartmann
10 English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri 103
Werner Hüllen
11 Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary 113
Charlotte Brewer
Part IV Pre-history of English 123
12 English as an Indo-European Language 127
Philip Baldi
13 English as a Germanic Language 142
R. D. Fulk
Part V English in History: England and America 151
Section 1 Old English in History (ca. 450-1066) 153
14 Early Old English (up to 899) 156
Daniel Donoghue
15 Late Old English (899-1066) 165
Mechthild Gretsch
16 Topics in Old English Dialects 172
Lucia Kornexl
Section 2 Middle English in History (1066-1485) 181
17 Early Middle English (1066-ca. 1350) 184
Thorlac Turville-Petre
18 Late Middle English (ca. 1350-1485) 191
Seth Lerer
19 Varieties of Middle English 198
Jeremy J. Smith
Section 3 Early Modern English in History (1485-1660) 207
20 Early Modern English (1485-1660) 209
Terttu Nevalainen
21 Varieties of Early Modern English 216
Jonathan Hope
Section 4 Modern British English in History (1660-present) 225
22 British English in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830) 228
Carey McIntosh
23 British English Since 1830 235
Richard W. Bailey
24 The Rise of Received Pronunciation 243
Lynda Mugglestone
Section 5 American English in History 251
25 American English to 1865 254
David Simpson
26 American English Since 1865 263
Walt Wolfram
27 American English Dialects 274
Gavin Jones
Section 6 Topics in History 281
28 Early Modern English Print Culture 284
John N. King
29 Issues of Gender in Modern English 293
Deborah Cameron
30 Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of "Standard English" 303
Tony Crowley
31 The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil 313
Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC
32 English, Latin, and the Teaching of Rhetoric 323
Michael Matto
33 English in Mass Communications: News Discourse and the Language of
Journalism 334
Philippa K. Smith and Allan Bell
Part VI English in History: English Outside England and the United States
345
Section 1 British Isles and Ireland 347
34 English in Wales 350
Marion Löffler
35 English in Scotland 358
J. Derrick McClure
36 English in Ireland 366
Terence Patrick Dolan
Section 2 English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 377
37 English in Canada 380
John Edwards
38 Australian and New Zealand English 389
Pam Peters
Section 3 Colonial and Post-colonial English 401
39 South Asian English 404
Kamal K. Sridhar
40 English in the Caribbean 413
Donald Winford
41 English in Africa 423
Alamin M. Mazrui
Part VII Literary Languages 431
42 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 435
Fred C. Robinson
43 "In swich englissh as he kan": Chaucer's Literary Language 445
John F. Plummer
44 Shakespeare's Literary Language 455
Adam N. McKeown
45 Jane Austen's Literary English 464
Mary Poovey
46 Joyce's English 471
Laurent Milesi
47 Faulkner's Language 479
Noel Polk
48 Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-Tongue 487
Tabish Khair
49 Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word 495
Justine Tally
Part VIII Issues in Present-Day English 505
50 Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American
Vernacular English 509
Mary B. Zeigler
51 Latino Varieties of English 521
Robert Bayley
52 Teaching English to Native Speakers: The Subject Matter of Composition
(1970-2005) 531
Mary Soliday
53 Earning as well as Learning a Language: English and the Post-colonial
Teacher 541
Eugene Chen Eoyang
54 Creoles and Pidgins 553
Salikoko S. Mufwene
55 World Englishes in World Contexts 567
Braj B. Kachru
Part IX Further Approaches to Language Study 581
56 Style and Stylistics 585
David L. Hoover
57 Corpus-Based Linguistic Approaches to the History of English 596
Anne Curzan
58 Sociolinguistics 608
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
59 Cognitive Linguistics 618
Dirk Geeraerts
Glossary of Linguistic Terms 630
Haruko Momma
Index 646