Inventing English a portable history of the language /

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Main Author: Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.