| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 正題名/作者: |
Inventing English/ Seth Lerer. |
| 其他題名: |
a portable history of the language / |
| 作者: |
Lerer, Seth, |
| 出版者: |
New York :Columbia University Press, : c2007., |
| 面頁冊數: |
viii, 305 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| 內容註: |
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. |
| 標題: |
English language - Etymology. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=198797An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0231510764 (electronic bk.) |