A companion to the history of the English language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (724 p.)
• Disciplina: 420.9
• Soggetto topico: English language - History
• Altri autori: MommaHaruko MattoMichael
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on Phonetic Symbols and Orthography; A Timeline for HEL; Part I: Introduction; 1: History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today; 2: History of the History of the English Language: How Has the Subject Been Studied?; 3: Essential Linguistics; Part II: Linguistic Survey; 4: Phonology: Segmental Histories; 5: History of English Morphology; 6: History of English Syntax; 7: A History of the English Lexicon; 8: History of English Prosody; Part III: English Semantics and Lexicography ; 9: Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them?10: English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri; 11: Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary; Part IV: Pre-history of English; 12: English as an Indo-European Language; 13: English as a Germanic Language; Part V: English in History: England and America; Section 1: Old English in History (ca. 450-1066); 14: Early Old English (up to 899); 15: Late Old English (899-1066); 16: Topics in Old English Dialects; Section 2: Middle English in History (1066-1485); 17: Early Middle English (1066-ca. 1350) ; 18: Late Middle English (ca. 1350-1485)19: Varieties of Middle English; Section 3: Early Modern English in History (1485-1660); 20: Early Modern English (1485-1660); 21: Varieties of Early Modern English; Section 4: Modern British English in History (1660-present); 22: British English in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830); 23: British English Since 1830; 24: The Rise of Received Pronunciation; Section 5: American English in History; 25: American English to 1865; 26: American English Since 1865; 27: American English Dialects; Section 6: Topics in History ; 28: Early Modern English Print Culture 29: Issues of Gender in Modern English; 30: Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of "Standard English"; 31: The Transplantation of American English in Philippine Soil; 32: English, Latin, and the Teaching of Rhetoric; 33: English in Mass Communications: News Discourse and the Language of Journalism; Part VI: English in History: English Outside England and the United States; Section 1: British Isles and Ireland; 34: English in Wales; 35: English in Scotland; 36: English in Ireland; Section 2: English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ; 37: English in Canada 38: Australian and New Zealand English; Section 3: Colonial and Post-Colonial English; 39: South Asian English; 40: English in the Caribbean; 41: English in Africa; Part VII: Literary Languages; 42: The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition; 43: "In swich english as he kan": Chaucer's Literary Language; 44: Shakespeare's Literary Language; 45: Jane Austen's Literary English; 46: Joyce's English; 47: Faulkner's Language; 48: Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-Tongue; 49: Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word; Part VIII: Issues in Present-Day English ; 50: Migration and Motivation in the Development of African American Vernacular English
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to the History of the English Language addresses the linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches to language study. The first text to offer a complete survey of the field, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leading international scholars.An accessible reference to the history of the English language Comprises more than sixty essays written by leading international scholars Aids literature students in incorporating language study into their work Includes an historical survey of the English language, from its Germanic and Indo- Euro
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the history of the English language
• ISBN: 1-78268-696-7; 1-282-46080-3; 9786612460807; 1-4051-8491-4; 1-4443-0285-X; 1-4443-0286-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808227903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 54.