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The English Language: Volume 2, Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters, 1858-1964 (Paperback)
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The English Language: Volume 2, Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters, 1858-1964 (Paperback)
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A collection of statements by literary men and others about the
nature and use of the language, its resources, potentialities and
development. Volume I covered the period 1490 1839. Volume II
starts in 1858 and runs to the 1960s and therefore records the rise
first of philology, then of modern linguistic study. Accordingly
this volume contains a number of excerpts from the writings of
great European and American language-scholars (Sweet, Sapir and
Bloomfield among others) as well as by important writers. The
volume provides a readable and often entertaining introduction to
thought about English, and language generally, during the period
and also illustrates the overall development of attitudes. The
editors provide an introduction and study questions for those
readers who use the book for formal class-study. Distinctive
features of the original writings are preserved as examples of
variety of style, spelling, punctuation and general presentation.
Footnotes explain difficulties.
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