Bibliograph

Inventing English, a portable history of the language, Seth Lerer

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Inventing English, a portable history of the language, Seth Lerer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inventing English

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

166342424

Responsibility statement

Seth Lerer

Sub title

a portable history of the language

Table Of Contents

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

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