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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis
| Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis |
| Autore | Lerer Seth <1955-> |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Etymology English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 Linguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-231-54124-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- A Note on Texts and Letter Forms -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- INTRODUCTION: Finding English, Finding Us -- 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing -- 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan -- 3. In This Year -- 4. From Kingdom to Realm -- 5. Lord of This Langage -- 6. I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye -- 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English -- 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose -- 9. I Do, I Will -- 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild -- 11. Visible Speech -- 12. A Harmless Drudge -- 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas -- 14. Antses in the Sugar -- 15. Hello, Dude -- 16. Ready for the Funk -- 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest -- 18. Listening to Private Ryan -- 19. He Speaks in Your Voice -- 20. Faith in English -- Epilogue: The Talk and the Text -- Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation -- Glossary -- References and Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460839903321 |
Lerer Seth <1955->
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| New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis
| Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis |
| Autore | Lerer Seth <1955-> |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Etymology English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 Linguistics |
| ISBN | 0-231-51076-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778157703321 |
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Lerer Seth <1955->
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| New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis
| Inventing English : a portable history of the language / / Seth Lerer ; cover design, Linda Secondari ; cover illustration, Martha Lewis |
| Autore | Lerer Seth <1955-> |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Etymology English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 Linguistics |
| ISBN | 0-231-51076-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813096003321 |
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Lerer Seth <1955->
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| New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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