Inventing English : : A Portable History of the Language / / Seth Lerer.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Texts and Letter Forms
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- INTRODUCTION: Finding English, Finding Us
- 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing
- 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan
- 3. In This Year
- 4. From Kingdom to Realm
- 5. Lord of This Langage
- 6. I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye
- 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English
- 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose
- 9. I Do, I Will
- 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild
- 11. Visible Speech
- 12. A Harmless Drudge
- 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas
- 14. Antses in the Sugar
- 15. Hello, Dude
- 16. Ready for the Funk
- 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest
- 18. Listening to Private Ryan
- 19. He Speaks in Your Voice
- 20. Faith in English
- Epilogue: The Talk and the Text
- Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation
- Glossary
- References and Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition
- Index