A collection of statements by literary men about the nature and use of the English language, its resources, potentialities and development.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Charles Dickens: 'Saxon-English' from Household Words; 2. Henry Sweet: 'Words, Logic and Grammar', from Transactions of the Philological Society; 3. Fitzedward Hall: 'English Rational and Irrational', from The Nineteenth Century; 4. Walt Whitman: 'Slang in America' from The North American Review; 5. J. A. H. Murray: 'General Explanations', from the Introduction to A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; 6. George Bernard Shaw: 'A Plea for Speech Nationalisation', letter to The Morning Leader; 7. Robert Bridges: 'The Society's Work', Society for Pure English, Tract XXI; 8. A. Lloyd James: 'Broadcast English', BBC Pamphlet; 9. Logan Pearsall Smith: 'Needed Words', Society for Pure English, Tract XXXI; 10. Edward Sapir: 'Language', from Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; 11. Leonard Bloomfield: 'The Structure of Learned Words', from A Commemorative Volume; 12. Eilert Erkwall: 'The Value of Place-Name Study', from the Introduction to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names; 13. I. A. Richards: 'The Interinanimation of Words', from The Philosophy of Rhetoric; 14. Eric Partridge: 'Slang', Society for Pure English, Tract LV; 15. C. C. Fries: 'The Social Significance of Differences in Language Practice and the Obligation of the Schools', from American English Grammar; 16. George Orwell: 'Politics and the English Language', from Horizon; 17. Bernard Bloch: 'English Verb Inflection', from Language; 18. H. L. Mencken: 'English or American?' from The American Language; 19. R. B. Lees: 'A Multiply Ambiguous Adjectival Construction in English', from Language; 20. H. Kurath and R. I. McDavid: 'Introduction', from The Pronunciation of English in the United States; 21. James Sledd: 'The Lexicographer's Uneasy Chair', from College English; 22. Anthony Burgess: 'Words' from Language Made Plain; Study Questions; Select Index of Literary and Linguistic Topics.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Charles Dickens: 'Saxon-English' from Household Words; 2. Henry Sweet: 'Words, Logic and Grammar', from Transactions of the Philological Society; 3. Fitzedward Hall: 'English Rational and Irrational', from The Nineteenth Century; 4. Walt Whitman: 'Slang in America' from The North American Review; 5. J. A. H. Murray: 'General Explanations', from the Introduction to A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; 6. George Bernard Shaw: 'A Plea for Speech Nationalisation', letter to The Morning Leader; 7. Robert Bridges: 'The Society's Work', Society for Pure English, Tract XXI; 8. A. Lloyd James: 'Broadcast English', BBC Pamphlet; 9. Logan Pearsall Smith: 'Needed Words', Society for Pure English, Tract XXXI; 10. Edward Sapir: 'Language', from Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; 11. Leonard Bloomfield: 'The Structure of Learned Words', from A Commemorative Volume; 12. Eilert Erkwall: 'The Value of Place-Name Study', from the Introduction to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names; 13. I. A. Richards: 'The Interinanimation of Words', from The Philosophy of Rhetoric; 14. Eric Partridge: 'Slang', Society for Pure English, Tract LV; 15. C. C. Fries: 'The Social Significance of Differences in Language Practice and the Obligation of the Schools', from American English Grammar; 16. George Orwell: 'Politics and the English Language', from Horizon; 17. Bernard Bloch: 'English Verb Inflection', from Language; 18. H. L. Mencken: 'English or American?' from The American Language; 19. R. B. Lees: 'A Multiply Ambiguous Adjectival Construction in English', from Language; 20. H. Kurath and R. I. McDavid: 'Introduction', from The Pronunciation of English in the United States; 21. James Sledd: 'The Lexicographer's Uneasy Chair', from College English; 22. Anthony Burgess: 'Words' from Language Made Plain; Study Questions; Select Index of Literary and Linguistic Topics.
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