Unlocking the History of English
Title | Unlocking the History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Luisella Caon |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2024-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027246998 |
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The chapters deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms, functions and audiences. They feature both quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use, often in relation to trends of language advice in such metalinguistic works as grammars, spelling books and usage guides. The authors showcase work on pragmatics and prescriptivism (understatement between Middle and Late Modern English, capitalization of common nouns from Early to Late Modern English and the use of stigmatized grammatical variants in eighteenth-century plays), specific text types (case studies of political, legal and medical English) and the language of late modern letters (diachronic stylistic changes, letter-copying practices, the role of letter-writing manuals and changing spelling practices). This volume will be of interest to those working on pragmatics, prescriptivism and sociolinguistics of English, historical linguistics, language change, computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.
Unlocking the History of English
Title | Unlocking the History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Luisella Caon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-08-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027214720 |
The articles in this volume deal with aspects of language use throughout the history of English, including efforts to prescribe and regulate language in texts that share specific forms, functions, and audiences. They feature quantitative and qualitative analyses of changing language use, often in relation to trends of language advice.
Unlocking Literacy
Title | Unlocking Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia K. Henry |
Publisher | Brookes Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781598570748 |
The second edition of this bestselling textbook arms pre-K to middle-school teachers with the most recent developments in reading research--and shows them how to apply their knowledge in the classroom to help all students learn.;
Unlocking the English Language
Title | Unlocking the English Language PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Burchfield |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1992-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0374523398 |
As we grapple with an English language adapting and expanding faster than ever, Robert Burchfield offers a sane, humanistic, and historically illuminating account of how words enter our official vocabulary. In this lively collection of essays, he shows us that dictionaries, far from being static, are hotly contested social documents resulting from the interaction of the language, the lexicographer, and his times. Drawing on the author's thirty years' experience as the editor of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, this book gives us a firsthand account of the sorts of decisions lexicographers have confronted since Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (such as the uses of literary authority, the inclusion of "ethnic" vocabulary, the establishment of standard usage), as well as more contemporary issues, including the implications of compiling dictionaries in the computer age. There is also a wealth of insights into the history of our language, its rich past, and its potential future.--From publisher description.
The 1960s
Title | The 1960s PDF eBook |
Author | James S. Olson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1440860424 |
This volume serves as an invaluable study guide covering all of the key political, social, and cultural concepts of the turbulent 1960s. The 1960s were a polarizing decade, beginning brightly and with hope but ending in disappointment and disarray. By the end, traditional values had been subverted, political institutions had been overturned, and marginalized groups had battled their own government to win equal rights and freedoms. The clear-cut foreign policies of the postwar era brought mixed results, and the world's mightiest nation became mired in a war it could not win. This overview of the 1960s covers all of the key political, social, and cultural concepts of the decade through topical and biographical entries, primary documents, a sample document-based essay question and top tips, and period-specific learning objectives. The book contains an Introduction that presents the historical themes of the period. Alphabetical encyclopedic entries relating to the period specific themes comprise the core reference material in the book. The book also contains a range of primary documents with their own introductions and a sample document-based essay question. Other features include a list of "Top Tips," a thematically tagged chronology, and a list of specific learning objectives readers can use to gauge their working knowledge and understanding of the period.
Unlocking the Bible
Title | Unlocking the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | David Pawson |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 985 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0007378920 |
David Pawson presents a unique overview of both the Old and New Testaments.
Unlocking the Church
Title | Unlocking the Church PDF eBook |
Author | William Hadden Whyte |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0198796153 |
Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and built. Initially controversial, this revolution was so successful, that it has now been forgotten. Yet it still shapes our experience of church buildings and also helps make sense of what we should do with them now.