Peter Trudgill

Long Journey of English (eBook, PDF)

A Geographical History of the Language

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Produktbeschreibung

English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with native-speaking communities at the furthest ends of the earth. However, just three thousand years ago, the language-which-became-English was not spoken anywhere in Britain. Trudgill, one of the foremost authorities on the English language, takes us on a remarkable journey through the history of English to show how it grew to become the global phenomenon that we know today. Over ten short, easily digestible chapters, he traces its development and global spread, starting with the earliest genesis of English five thousand years ago, exploring its expansion in the British Isles, and finishing with an overview of how the language looks today, including its use in an increasingly digital world. Particular attention is paid to the native-speaker varieties of English from all around the world, and the relationship between colonial varieties of English and indigenous languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108960243
• Artikelnr.: 70909615

Autorenporträt

Peter Trudgill is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Fribourg University and Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia. He has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala, East Anglia, La Trobe, British Columbia, Patras, Murcia and Lublin. Recent publications include European Language Matters (2021), Millennia of Language Change (2020) and Dialect Matters (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: a view from the birthplace
1. Where it all started: the language which became English
2. The journey begins: the first movement south
3. Interlude: a view from the Celtic island
4. Heading west again: the North Sea crossing 400-600
5. Anglo-Saxons and Celts in the English highlands 600-800
6. And further west: across the Irish Sea 800-1200
7. Atlantic crossing: on to the Americas 1600-1800
8. Onwards to the Pacific shore
9. Across the Equator: into the Southern Hemisphere 1800-1900
10. Some turning back: English in retreat
11. Meanwhile... Britain and the British Isles from 1600
12. Transcultural diffusion: the New Native Englishes
Epilogue: sixteen hundred years on.