Introducing the History of the English Language

ISBN-13: 9781032129693 / Miękka / 2024 / 304 str.

Seth Lerer

Opis

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.

Recenzje

"With elegance and clarity, and relying on recent developments in sociolinguistic thinking and methodology, Lerer’s History rights the imbalances of previous accounts by stressing English’s constant diversity. This important book is likely to become the standard textbook for the foreseeable future."

Tim William Machan, University of Notre Dame, USA

 

"Sensitive to both literature and lived experience, Seth Lerer’s Introducing the History of the English Language offers an accessible guide to English and its many voices. This is the modern, user-friendly textbook I have been waiting for."　

Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn, Germany

Spis treści

Illustrations, Maps, and Charts
Preface
English Phonemes
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Indo-European Languages
Chapter 2: The Germanic Languages
Chapter 3: Old English
Chapter 4: Middle English
Chapter 5. From Middle English to Modern English
Chapter 6. English in the Age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible
Chapter 7: The Age of Regulation
Chapter 8. English in Great Britain, 1800-2000
Chapter 9: American English, Origins and Attitudes
Chapter 10: English in the Black Atlantic
Chapter 11: Global English
Chapter 12: English in the Twenty-first Century

Index

O autorze

Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, where he has also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His publications include Chaucer and His Readers (1993), Error and the Academic Self (2002), Inventing English (revised edition, 2015), Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008), and Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage (2018). He has published creative non-fiction in The American Scholar, The Yale Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in his memoir, Prospero’s Son (2013).