02800nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10177989 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060918s2007 nyua sb 001 0 eng 2006030652 GBA709723 bnb 013660537 Uk 023113794X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231137942 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231510764 (e-book) 9780231510769 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)568043810 PE1075 .L47 2007eb 420.9 22 Lerer, Seth, 1955- Inventing English [electronic resource] : a portable history of the language / Seth Lerer. New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. viii, 305 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. English language History. English language Etymology. English language Old English, ca. 450-1100. English language Middle English, 1100-1500. Linguistics. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10177989 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 237284 237284