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**NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA, CANADA OR THE PHILIPPINES** A History of
the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural
development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the
present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different
aspects of its history. This best-selling classic textbook has been
revised and updated and encourages the reader to develop both an
understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude
toward the issues affecting the language today. New features of the
sixth edition include: an additional chapter titled 'English in the
Twenty-first Century', which examines the future of English and
other global languages and includes an assessment of Chinese as a
world language an in-depth treatment of phonological changes, such
as the placement of the Great Vowel Shift as a bridge between
Middle English and Renaissance English further coverage of corpus
linguistics, especially for Renaissance English fresh sections on
accent and register a new survey of the recent debate between
"creolists" and "neo-Anglicists" on the origins of African American
Vernacular English. Balanced and wide-ranging, this textbook is a
must-read for any student studying the history of the English
language
In the spirit of the main text, the Companion pays attention to the
linguistic effects of social, political, and literary events. The
maps are designed to set the geographical contexts for these
cultural influences during the Indo-European period, the Middle
Ages, and the eras of the British Empire and of American
ascendancy. The pre-chapter on "The Sounds of English" contains
phonetic information and exercises that should be helpful in most
of the chapters that follow. The "Questions for Review" that begin
each chapter give an overview of the most important topics in each
period and serve as a checklist of items that should be familiar in
any discussion of the history of English. Now that we are into the
second decade of the twenty-first century, a twelfth chapter has
been added to the main text. Because English as a global language
is a central issue in its history at this point, the questions for
review in Chapter 12 raise topics for discussion concerning the
major languages of the world, prospects for the future, and less
obvious issues such as the relative "complexity" of languages. The
headings for most sections are followed by a corresponding section
number in the History. On many topics the amount of exposition
preceding the exercises varies more or less inversely with the
amount in the History, the idea being to have a full discussion of
important topics without a duplication between the two books.
**NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA, CANADA OR THE PHILIPPINES** A History of
the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural
development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the
present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different
aspects of its history. This best-selling classic textbook has been
revised and updated and encourages the reader to develop both an
understanding of present-day English and an enlightened attitude
toward the issues affecting the language today. New features of the
sixth edition include: an additional chapter titled 'English in the
Twenty-first Century', which examines the future of English and
other global languages and includes an assessment of Chinese as a
world language an in-depth treatment of phonological changes, such
as the placement of the Great Vowel Shift as a bridge between
Middle English and Renaissance English further coverage of corpus
linguistics, especially for Renaissance English fresh sections on
accent and register a new survey of the recent debate between
"creolists" and "neo-Anglicists" on the origins of African American
Vernacular English. Balanced and wide-ranging, this textbook is a
must-read for any student studying the history of the English
language
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