Evolving English : one language, many voices : an illustrated history of the English language

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Evolving English : one language, many voices : an illustrated history of the English language

Title remainder

one language, many voices : an illustrated history of the English language

Statement of responsibility

David Crystal

Title variation

Illustrated history of the English language

Creator

• Crystal, David, 1941-

Subject

• English language -- History
• Language acquisition

Language

eng

Summary

English is spoken or written today by one-third of the world's population--an unprecedented achievement for a language. How has this situation come about? And what happens to a language when it is used by so many? In this illustrated history David Crystal charts the development of the language from the earliest runic inscriptions in Old English, through the emergence of a standard variety of English between 1400 and 1800, to the most modern forms of the language in 'concrete' and 'text' poetry. In telling the story he draws on examples from English in its various guises and uses from our everyday English to English in the workplace and English used as a medium of playful and literary expression. The regional and international varieties of English are also considered. This book shows us where language is now, where it has been, and perhaps most important of all where it is heading, for the new varieties of the language appearing in world literature and on the Internet show that this is a story which is by no means over

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

420.9

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs