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Lerer, Seth, (1955-)

Inventing English :a portable history of the language /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inventing English :Seth Lerer.
Reminder of title:	a portable history of the language /
Author:	Lerer, Seth,
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press,c2007.
Description:	viii, 305 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Subject:	English languageMiddle English, 1100-1500.
Online resource:	http://www.igpublish.com/columbia-ebooks/Book.nsp?cid_BOOKCODE=DEMOCOLB0000567&cid_BOOKPAGE=1
ISBN:	023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)

Inventing English :a portable history of the language /
Lerer, Seth,1955-

Inventing English :a portable history of the language /Seth Lerer. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2007. - viii, 305 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.

Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.

ISBN: 023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA709723bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013660537UkSubjects--Topical Terms:

181120
English language
--Middle English, 1100-1500.

LC Class. No.: PE1075 / .L47 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 420.9

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