Author: ROBERT BURCHFIELD, JOHN SIMPSON
Title: The English language
Description: Oxford University Press, USA, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 208. Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th century AD to the present day.Burchfield describes the resilience of the language-from the days of runes to the origins of printing, through social, religious, political and industrial change in the eighteenth century, through the rise of the British Empire and the development of world English, right up to the enormous changesin the English language that have taken place in the twentieth-century. In a stirring Afterword, John Simpson looks at what the historical details of the English Language tell us about the world of its speakers, and how ideas about what constitutes the English Language have changed over the pastdecades. Wonderfully informative and a delight to read, The English Language is an essential guide for anyone interested in the early days of our language and how it has transformed over the years into its modern form. ISBN: 9780198604037. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780198604037
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Title: The English language
Description: Oxford University Press, USA, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 208. Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th century AD to the present day.Burchfield describes the resilience of the language-from the days of runes to the origins of printing, through social, religious, political and industrial change in the eighteenth century, through the rise of the British Empire and the development of world English, right up to the enormous changesin the English language that have taken place in the twentieth-century. In a stirring Afterword, John Simpson looks at what the historical details of the English Language tell us about the world of its speakers, and how ideas about what constitutes the English Language have changed over the pastdecades. Wonderfully informative and a delight to read, The English Language is an essential guide for anyone interested in the early days of our language and how it has transformed over the years into its modern form. ISBN: 9780198604037. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780198604037
Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 98872
- Book number: 98872
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