Book Description
This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2000-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631218142
This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern.
Author : David Burnley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131788339X
This second edition of The History of the English Language- A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and development of the English language. First published in 1992, the book contains over fifty illustrative passages, drawn from the oldest English to the twentieth century. The passages are contextualised by individual introductions and grouped into the traditional periods of Old English, Early Middle English, Later Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English. These periods are connected by brief essays explaining the major linguistic developments associated with each period, to produce a continuous outline history. For this new edition Professor Burnley has expanded the outline of linguistic features at each of the main chronological divisions and included more selections and illustrations. A new section has also been included to illustrate the language of advertising from the 18th century to the present. The book will be of general interest to all those interested in the origins and development of the English language, and in particular to students and teachers of the history of the English language at A-level and university.
Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 1996-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780340614464
This is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. In the book, the authors discuss accent and dialect in the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. This is followed by a survey of the speech of twelve different areas of the British Isles. The cassette which accompanies the book consists of edited interviews (all transcribed in the book) with speakers from each of the different areas. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and includes an entirely new chapter on Received Pronunciation. The cassette now includes recordings of three different varieties of RP speech. Entirely new sections, with corresponding recordings, have been added on Lowland Scots, Devon and Dublin speech.
Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027245355
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the universal language .
Author : A Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136892990
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107611806
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Author : Arthur Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134663889
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. Key features: main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands additional exercises with answers online accompany the new varieties clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and dialects. This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.
Author : Bernard O'Dwyer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551117638
Modern English Structures is a clear and accessible text that follows a structural approach to teaching basic English grammar. The book is divided into three parts: what a sentence constituent is, what a sentence constituent does, and where a sentence constituent goes—Form, Function, and Position. The objective of the book is to bring students to a better understanding of sentence constituents and sentence structures, providing them with appropriate terminology to discuss these forms and relationships. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout. The accompanying Modern English Structures Workbook parallels the text and provides useful training both in memorization and in higher-order thinking skills.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 113429235X
Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further investigation. Each Language Workbook guides the reader through the subject using 'hands-on' language analysis, equipping them with the basic analytical skills needed to handle a wide range of data. Written in a clear and simple style, with all technical concepts fully explained, Language Workbooks can be used for independent study or as part of a taught class. This second edition of Dialects: *has been revised throughout *introduces the many dialects of English spoken in the United Kingdom *reveals the key issues that dialectology engages with *uses both the international phonetic alphabet and simple representations of sounds to explain pronunciations *involves readers in collecting data *contains numerous illustrative maps *is written in a lively and engaging style, with information on 'posh and less posh' dialects and spotting your dialect area.
Author : Getaway Guides
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781507835340
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