A Biography of the English Language - Hardcover

Millward, C.M.; Hayes, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495906417 ISBN 13: 9780495906414

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2011

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The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.

A Biography of the English Language Hardback edition by C.M. Millward

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"The text introduces concepts basic to the study of the development of any language, and then uses the concepts as a lens to specifically view the developmental periods of English." "The book is very well written with a very appealing "voice" and is very clear in its explanations. It focuses appropriately on the most significant changes in the history of English."

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The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.

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• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0495906417
• ISBN 13: 9780495906414
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496