Author: Barbara M. H. Strang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317421906
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
A History of English
Author: Barbara M. H. Strang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317421906
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317421906
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
A History of English (RLE: English Language)
Author: Barbara M. H. Strang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317421914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317421914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines the changes in English language speech and writing over a period of almost 2000 years, whilst also exploring more recent changes within the author’s living memory. This title aims to raise countless issues for enquiry and discussion, and its purpose is to serve as a springboard for language history learning rather than a textbook.
History in English Words
Author: Owen Barfield
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 1584205121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"The playful artistry of the Waldorf Alphabet Book speaks to the heart of childhood. These lively illustrations, so filled with color, movement, eloquent gesture, and invention conjure up long-forgotten memories of books from a time when pictures were still alive and spoke with power. Each page is a magical door, opening to the bright realm where stories are enacted, a realm of wonders accessible to children, artists, and ll those in whom the light of imagination shines. "The most important thing as you peruse the delightful pages of the Waldorf Alphabet Book with your child is the engaging conversation that flows between you as you search among the pictures for words." (from the afterword) In this delightful, bestselling alphabet and game book for young children, each consonant and vowel comes to life in vivid pictures that show each letter's unique qualities in the world. The vibrant and playful illustrations help children learn the alphabet in the most natural and living way. This expanded paperback edition includes a complete essay by master Waldorf teacher William Ward, "Learning to Read and Write in Waldorf Schools": This is the alphabet book for parents and teachers who want to encourage the most natural development in children. It is ideal for both at home and in the classroom. It also makes an ideal gift for your favorite young child or parents!
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 1584205121
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
"The playful artistry of the Waldorf Alphabet Book speaks to the heart of childhood. These lively illustrations, so filled with color, movement, eloquent gesture, and invention conjure up long-forgotten memories of books from a time when pictures were still alive and spoke with power. Each page is a magical door, opening to the bright realm where stories are enacted, a realm of wonders accessible to children, artists, and ll those in whom the light of imagination shines. "The most important thing as you peruse the delightful pages of the Waldorf Alphabet Book with your child is the engaging conversation that flows between you as you search among the pictures for words." (from the afterword) In this delightful, bestselling alphabet and game book for young children, each consonant and vowel comes to life in vivid pictures that show each letter's unique qualities in the world. The vibrant and playful illustrations help children learn the alphabet in the most natural and living way. This expanded paperback edition includes a complete essay by master Waldorf teacher William Ward, "Learning to Read and Write in Waldorf Schools": This is the alphabet book for parents and teachers who want to encourage the most natural development in children. It is ideal for both at home and in the classroom. It also makes an ideal gift for your favorite young child or parents!
World Englishes
Author: Mesthrie Rajend Bhatt Rakesh Mohan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511410123
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Discusses the spread of English around the world from a social and linguistic perspective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511410123
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Discusses the spread of English around the world from a social and linguistic perspective.
English as a Global Language
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107611806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107611806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
The English and Their History
Author: Robert Tombs
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
English as a Contact Language
Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139619268
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139619268
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.
Speaking American
Author: Richard W. Bailey
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019517934X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic history.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019517934X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic history.
A History of the English Language
Author: Albert Croll Baugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780133891553
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780133891553
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Fixing English
Author: Anne Curzan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020751
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020751
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.