Introducing the History of the English Language
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Introducing the History of the English Language

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Introducing the History of the English Language

About this book

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. Introducing the History of the English Language first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage's messy development in society, beginning with its origins in the Indo-European language family and continuing chronologically through the Old, Middle, Modern, and present-day forms.

Seth Lerer deftly tells this story not as a tale of standards and authority but of differences and diversity. He draws on public and private literary sources from different regions and those in different social classes, highlighting sources from women and people of color – and introduces readers to the effects of technology on English, and the politics of dialect and racial, gender, regional, and class identity across these periods. Further, this text extensively addresses the rich diversity of English varieties, with innovative, focused chapters dedicated to American English, African American English, Global English, and Virtual English.

Requiring no prior knowledge of language history or linguistics, offering an array of supplemental activities as online support material, and taking a socially motivated approach to pedagogy that seeks to generate productive reflection and discussion about language difference and politics, this book enables and encourages the twenty-first century student in the United States to see their own language use as deeply implicated in power dynamics and social relationships.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032129716
eBook ISBN
9781003826088
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Endorsement Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface: To the Student and the Teacher
  10. English Phonemes and Transcribing Speech
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Introduction: What Is Language and How Do We Study It?
  13. 1 The Indo-European Languages
  14. 2 The Germanic Languages
  15. 3 The Old English Period
  16. 4 Middle English
  17. 5 From Middle English to Modern English
  18. 6 English in the Age of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible
  19. 7 The Age of Regulation: British English, 1650–1800
  20. 8 The Sounds and Shapes of English in Great Britain, 1800–2000
  21. 9 American English: Origins, Varieties, and Attitudes
  22. 10 The English Language and the Black Atlantic
  23. 11 English in the World
  24. 12 Twenty-First-Century English
  25. Index