English : One Tongue, Many Voices / by Jan Svartvik, Geoffrey Leech.
Svartvik, Jan, author.; Leech, Geoffrey, author.
2016
PE1-PE3729
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Title English : One Tongue, Many Voices / by Jan Svartvik, Geoffrey Leech.
Author Svartvik, Jan, author.
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9781137160072
1137160071
9780230596160
0230596169
113755021X
9781137550217
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-16007-2
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-1-137-16007-2 doi
Call Number PE1-PE3729
Dewey Decimal Classification 410
Summary This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future, online and offline. They argue that, in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language. Jan Svartvik is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is co-author of A Communicative Grammar of English(with Geoffrey Leech) and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech). He has published on other varied aspects of English linguistics, such as corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, contrastive grammar and nautical terminology. He is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Academia Europaea. Geoffrey Leech (1935-2014) was Research Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Author, co-author, or co-editor of some 25 books and 100 papers or articles on varied aspects of linguistics and the English language, he was a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea. He was the author of widely used introductions to and Pragmatics, co-author with Mike Short of A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, and co-author with Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad of English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. He is the author or editor of over a hundred books on aspects of linguistics and the English language, such as The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Stories of English, Language and the Internet, and Evolving English. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 1995 was awardded an OBE for services to the English Language.
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1 English the working tongue of the global village.-PART I: History of an island language
2 The first 500 years
3 1066 and All That
4 Modern English in the making
PART II: The spread of English around the world
5 English goes to the New World.-6 English transplanted
7 English varieties in the British Isles
8 American and British English
9 English, pidgins and creoles
PART III: A changing language in changing times
10 The standard language today
11 Linguistic change in progress: Back to the Inner Circle
2 Electronic English
13 English into the future
Notes: Comments and References
References
Index of people
Index of topics
Pronunciation.

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