English – One Tongue, Many Voices
He is co-author of A Communicative Grammar of English(with Geoffrey Leech) and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech). He has published on other varied aspects of English linguistics, such as corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2016 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 English the working tongue of the global village. -PART I: History of an island language
- 2 The first 500 years
- 3 1066 and All That
- 4 Modern English in the making
- PART II: The spread of English around the world
- 5 English goes to the New World. -6 English transplanted
- 7 English varieties in the British Isles
- 8 American and British English
- 9 English, pidgins and creoles
- PART III: A changing language in changing times
- 10 The standard language today
- 11 Linguistic change in progress: Back to the Inner Circle
- 2 Electronic English
- 13 English into the future
- Notes: Comments and References
- References
- Index of people
- Index of topics
- Pronunciation.