a portable history of the language Lerer, Seth 1955- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nyu New York Columbia University Press c2007 2007 monographic eng

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viii, 305 p. : ill. 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. Seth Lerer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index. 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 PE1075 .L47 2007eb 420.9 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10177989 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10177989 CaPaEBR 060918 ebr10177989