Lynda Mugglestone

The Oxford History of English

Ed.: Mugglestone, Lynda

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Produktbeschreibung

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is republished in a reset and revised edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English. With impeccable and approachable scholarship, it describes the changing sounds, words, and meanings of English. A book for everyone interested in the language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660162
• ISBN-10: 0199660166
• Artikelnr.: 35331286

Autorenporträt

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A History of the English Language
1: Terry Hoad: Preliminaries: before English
2: Susan Irvine: Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
3: Matthew Townend: Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
4: Marilyn Corrie: Middle English - dialects and diversity
5: Jeremy Smith: From Middle to Early Modern English
6: April McMahon: Restructuring Renaissance English
7: Terrtu Nevalainen: Mapping Change in Tudor English
8: Paula Blank: The Babel of Renaissance English
9: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Speakers and Writers of Eighteenth-century English
10: Lynda Mugglestone: English in the Nineteenth Century
11: Clive Upton: Modern Regional English in the British Isles
12: Richard W. Bailey: English Among the Languages
13: Tom McArthur: English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
14: David Crystal: Into the Twenty-first Century
TImeline
Table of Phonetic Equivalents
Glossary
References
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index