Inventing English a portable history of the language /
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Columbia University Press,
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Inventing English |h [electronic resource] : |b a portable history of the language / |c Seth Lerer. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Columbia University Press, |c c2007. | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 305 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Etymology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |y Old English, ca. 450-1100. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |y Middle English, 1100-1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Linguistics. | |
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