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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Seth LererPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9781032129693ISBN 10: 1032129697 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 29 January 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface English Phonemes and Transcribing Speech Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Language and How Do We Study It? Chapter 1: The Indo-European Languages Chapter 2: The Germanic Languages Chapter 3: The Old English Period 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: British English, 1650-1800 Chapter 8. The Sounds and Shapes of English in Great Britain, 1800-2000 Chapter 9: American English: Origins, Varieties, and Attitudes Chapter 10: The English Language and the Black Atlantic Chapter 11: English in the World Chapter 12: Twenty-First-Century English IndexReviewsWith 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 """With elegance and clarity, and relying on recent developments in sociolinguistic thinking and methodology, Lerer’s Introducing the History of the English Language 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" Author InformationSeth 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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