A Companion to the History of the English Language

Herausgegeben von Momma, Haruko; Matto, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the History of the English Language addressesthe linguistic, cultural, social, and literary approaches tolanguage study. The first text to offer a complete survey of thefield, this volume provides the most up-to-date insights of leadinginternational scholars.

An accessible reference to the history of the Englishlanguage
Comprises more than sixty essays written by leadinginternational scholars
Aids literature students in incorporating language study intotheir work
Includes an historical survey of the English language, from itsGermanic and Indo- European beginnings to modern British andAmerican English
Enriched with maps, diagrams, and illustrations from historicalpublications
Introduces the latest scholarship in the field

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1230g
• ISBN-13: 9780470657935
• ISBN-10: 0470657936
• Artikelnr.: 32736089

Autorenporträt

Haruko Momma is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of The Composition of Old English Poetry (1997) and From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2009). Michael Matto is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Adelphi University. He has published articles on Old English language, literature, and culture, and is currently editing (with Greg Delanty) a collection of new literary translations of Old English poems (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Note on Phonetic
Symbols and Orthography. A Timeline for HEL. Part I Introduction. 1
History, English, Language: Studying HEL Today (Michael Matto and Haruko
Momma). 2 History of the History of the English Language: How Has the
Subject Been Studied? (Thomas Cable). 3 Essential Linguistics (Mary
Blockley). Part II Linguistic Survey. 4 Phonology: Segmental Histories
(Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell). 5 History of English Morphology
(Robert McColl Millar). 6 History of English Syntax (Olga Fischer). 7 A
History of the English Lexicon (Geoffrey Hughes). 8 History of English
Prosody (Geoffrey Russom). Part III English Semantics and Lexicography. 9
Dictionaries Today: What Can We Do With Them? (Reinhard R. K. Hartmann). 10
English Onomasiological Dictionaries and Thesauri (Werner Hüllen). 11
Johnson, Webster, and the Oxford English Dictionary (Charlotte Brewer).
Part IV Pre-history of English. 12 English as an Indo-European Language
(Philip Baldi). 13 English as a Germanic Language (R. D. Fulk). Part V
English in History: England and America. Section 1 Old English in History
(ca. 450-1066). 14 Early Old English (up to 899) (Daniel Donoghue). 15 Late
Old English (899-1066) (Mechthild Gretsch). 16 Topics in Old English
Dialects (Lucia Kornexl). Section 2 Middle English in History (1066-1485).
17 Early Middle English (1066-ca. 1350) (Thorlac Turville-Petre). 18 Late
Middle English (ca. 1350-1485) (Seth Lerer). 19 Varieties of Middle English
(Jeremy J. Smith). Section 3 Early Modern English in History (1485-1660).
20 Early Modern English (1485-1660) (Terttu Nevalainen). 21 Varieties of
Early Modern English (Jonathan Hope). Section 4 Modern British English in
History (1660-present). 22 British English in the Long Eighteenth Century
(1660-1830) (Carey McIntosh). 23 British English Since 1830 (Richard W.
Bailey). 24 The Rise of Received Pronunciation (Lynda Mugglestone). Section
5 American English in History. 25 American English to 1865 (David Simpson).
26 American English Since 1865 (Walt Wolfram). 27 American English Dialects
(Gavin Jones). Section 6 Topics in History. 28 Early Modern English Print
Culture (John N. King). 29 Issues of Gender in Modern English (Deborah
Cameron). 30 Class, Ethnicity, and the Formation of "Standard English"
(Tony Crowley). 31 The Transplantation of American English in Philippine
Soil (Br. Andrew Gonzalez, FSC). 32 English, Latin, and the Teaching of
Rhetoric (Michael Matto). 33 English in Mass Communications: News Discourse
and the Language of Journalism (Philippa K. Smith and Allan Bell). Part VI
English in History: English Outside England and the United States. Section
1 British Isles and Ireland. 34 English in Wales (Marion Löffler). 35
English in Scotland (J. Derrick McClure). 36 English in Ireland (Terence
Patrick Dolan). Section 2 English in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. 37
English in Canada (John Edwards). 38 Australian and New Zealand English
(Pam Peters). Section 3 Colonial and Post-colonial English. 39 South Asian
English (Kamal K. Sridhar). 40 English in the Caribbean (Donald Winford).
41 English in Africa (Alamin M. Mazrui). Part VII Literary Languages. 42
The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition (Fred C. Robinson). 43 "In swich englissh
as he kan": Chaucer's Literary Language (John F. Plummer). 44 Shakespeare's
Literary Language (Adam N. McKeown). 45 Jane Austen's Literary English
(Mary Poovey). 46 Joyce's English (Laurent Milesi). 47 Faulkner's Language
(Noel Polk). 48 Twixt the Twain: East-West in Rushdie's Zubaan-Tongue
(Tabish Khair). 49 Toni Morrison: The Struggle for the Word (Justine
Tally). Part VIII Issues in Present-Day English. 50 Migration and
Motivation in the Development of African American Vernacular English (Mary
B. Zeigler). 51 Latino Varieties of English (Robert Bayley). 52 Teaching
English to Native Speakers: The Subject Matter of Composition (1970-2005)
(Mary Soliday). 53 Earning as well as Learning a Language: English and the
Post-colonial Teacher (Eugene Chen Eoyang). 54 Creoles and Pidgins
(Salikoko S. Mufwene). 55 World Englishes in World Contexts (Braj B.
Kachru). Part IX Further Approaches to Language Study. 56 Style and
Stylistics (David L. Hoover). 57 Corpus-Based Linguistic Approaches to the
History of English (Anne Curzan). 58 Sociolinguistics (Robin Tolmach
Lakoff). 59 Cognitive Linguistics (Dirk Geeraerts). Glossary of Linguistic
Terms (Haruko Momma). Index.