Autore	Cable Thomas <1942-, >
Edizione	[Third edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina	177
Soggetto topico	English language - History
ISBN	1-134-42535-X 0-415-29894-6 0-203-99518-X 1-134-42536-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	0. The sounds of English -- 1. English present and future -- 2. The Indo-European family of languages -- 3. Old English -- 4. Foreign influences on Old English -- 5. The Norman conquest and the subjection of English, 1066-1200 -- 6. The reestablishment of English, 1200-1500 -- 7. Middle English -- 8. The Renaissance, 1500-1650 -- 9. The appeal to authority, 1650-1800 -- 10. The nineteenth century and after -- 11. The English language in America.
Altri titoli varianti	Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English language
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (724 p.)
Disciplina	420.9
Altri autori (Persone)	MommaHaruko MattoMichael
Collana	Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Soggetto topico	English language - History
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	eng
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
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (328 p.)
Disciplina	420/.9
Altri autori (Persone)	LenkerUrsula
Collana	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory
Soggetto topico	English language - History English language - Grammar English language - Connectives English language - Grammar, Historical
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-15298-X 9786612152986 90-272-9234-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454646003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (323 pages)
Disciplina	420.141
Collana	Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Soggetto topico	English language - Discourse analysis English language - History English literature - Criticism, Textual
ISBN	90-272-6055-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Framing framing : the multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse and framing / Birte Bös and Matti Peikola -- On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext : Punch magazine as a case study / Jukka Tyrkkö and Jenni Räikkönen -- The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing / Claudia Claridge and Sebastian Wagner -- Threshold-switching : paratextual functions of scribal colophons in Old and Middle English manuscripts / Wendy Scase -- Framing material in early literacy : presenting literacy and its agents in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Ursula Lenker -- Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres : a comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets / Elisabetta Cecconi -- "All which I offer with my own experience" : an approach to persuasive advertising strategies in the prefatory matter of 17th-century English midwifery treatises / M. Victoria Domínguez-Rodríguez and Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez Rodríguez -- "I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners" : perceptions of reader-friendliness in early modern printed books / Hanna Salmi -- Book producers' comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts / Mari-Liisa Varila -- Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing : framing contents and expanding the text / Elisabetta Lonati -- Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century / Jeremy J. Smith -- Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts / Colette Moore.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910794479703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	420.9
Collana	Studies in English language
Soggetto topico	English language - History English language - Variation English language - Standardization Languages in contact Historical linguistics
ISBN	1-107-23403-4 1-139-60996-3 1-139-61182-8 1-139-62484-9 1-139-61554-8 0-511-74006-9 1-139-60845-2 1-283-89934-5 1-139-62112-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; 1. Introduction: nothing but a contact language ... / Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier -- ; 2. The role of contact in English syntactic change in the Old and Middle English periods / Olga Fischer -- ; 3. Multilingualism and code-switching as mechanisms of contact-induced lexical change in late Middle English / Herbert Schendl -- ; 4. The contact origins of Standard English / Laura Wright -- ; 5. English as a contact language in the British Isles / Juhani Klemola -- ; 6. English as a contact language in Ireland and Scotland / Raymond Hickey -- ; 7. The contact dynamics of socioethnic varieties in North America / Walt Wolfram-- ; 8. English as a contact language: the 'New Englishes' / Edgar W. Schneider -- ; 9. English as a contact language: lesser-known varieties / Daniel Schreier -- ; 10. The role of mundane mobility and contact in dialect death and dialect birth / David Britain -- ; 11. The diversification of English: old, new and emerging epicenters / Marianne Hundt -- ; 12. Driving forces in English contact linguistics / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- ; 13. Substrate influence and universals in the emergence of contact Englishes: re-evaluating the evidence / Donald Winford -- ; 14. Transfer and contact in migrant and multiethnic communities: the conversational historical be + -ing present in South African Indian English / Rajend Mesthrie -- ; 15. English as a contact language: the role of children and adolescents / Paul Kerswill, Jenny Cheshire, Sue Fox and Eivind Torgersen -- ; 16. Innovation and contact: the role of adults (and children) / Sarah G. Thomason -- ; 17. Accelerator or inhibitor? On the role of substrate influence in interlanguage development / Terence Odlin -- ; 18. Speculating on the future of English as a contact language / Christian Mair.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452528303321