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Inventing English a portable history of the language
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Inventing English [electronic resource] : a portable history of the language / Seth Lerer.
ISBN
023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231137942 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231510764 (e-book)
9780231510769 (e-book)
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
viii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 13, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
Contents
Introduction: finding English, finding us
Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry
From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature
In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English
From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world
Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English
I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects
The great vowel shift and the changing character of English
Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose
I do, I will : Shakespeare's English
A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English
Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English
A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary
Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English
Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English
Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom
Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact
Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers
Listening to Private Ryan : war and language
He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.
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