Author:
Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Descriptionviii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
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