This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.
This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society.
Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, where he has also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His publications include Chaucer and His Readers (1993), Error and the Academic Self (2002), Inventing English (revised edition, 2015), Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008), and Shakespeare's Lyric Stage (2018). He has published creative non-fiction in The American Scholar, The Yale Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in his memoir, Prospero's Son (2013).
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List of Figures List of Tables Preface English Phonemes and Transcribing Speech Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Language and How Do We Study It? Chapter 1: The Indo-European Languages Chapter 2: The Germanic Languages Chapter 3: The Old English Period Chapter 4: Middle English Chapter 5. From Middle English to Modern English Chapter 6. English in the Age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible Chapter 7: The Age of Regulation: British English, 1650-1800 Chapter 8. The Sounds and Shapes of English in Great Britain, 1800-2000 Chapter 9: American English: Origins, Varieties, and Attitudes Chapter 10: The English Language and the Black Atlantic Chapter 11: English in the World Chapter 12: Twenty-First-Century English Index
List of Figures List of Tables Preface English Phonemes and Transcribing Speech Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Language and How Do We Study It? Chapter 1: The Indo-European Languages Chapter 2: The Germanic Languages Chapter 3: The Old English Period Chapter 4: Middle English Chapter 5. From Middle English to Modern English Chapter 6. English in the Age of Shakespeare and the King James Bible Chapter 7: The Age of Regulation: British English, 1650-1800 Chapter 8. The Sounds and Shapes of English in Great Britain, 1800-2000 Chapter 9: American English: Origins, Varieties, and Attitudes Chapter 10: The English Language and the Black Atlantic Chapter 11: English in the World Chapter 12: Twenty-First-Century English Index
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