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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
This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the
fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the
English Language.
Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in
the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive
supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of
sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An
additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides
phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful
throughout the book.
This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and
includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues
and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular
English.
This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English
Language courses.
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
This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the
fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the
English Language.
Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in
the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive
supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of
sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An
additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides
phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful
throughout the book.
This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and
includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues
and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular
English.
This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English
Language courses.
The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas Cable
contends, holds the key to a reinterpretation of both Old English
meter and iambic pentameter, which in turn provides a new
understanding of Middle English meter itself. Drawing upon recent
insights in linguistics, Cable articulates a theory of rhythm in
English poetry from its beginnings through the Renaissance and
beyond. Cable's discussion moves from the rhythms of Old English
poetry and prose to the poetry of Chaucer, to Shakespeare and
T.S.Eliot. He demonstrates that Middle English poetry does not show
the continuity of tradition that some authorities have asserted.
Throughout the book, the author asks fundamental questions
regarding the intentions of the poet, the impact of the perceived
metrical tradition upon that poet, and, with reference to Peircean
abduction, the possibility of constructing any metrical theory,
especially one from the distant past. The answers and their
implications - metrical, cognitive and philosophical - aim to
provide the foundation for a new understanding of the creation and
evolution of English versification from the 7th century to the
present.
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