What is English? and why should we care?

What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers, Tim Machan explores the language's present and past and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Machan, Tim William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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