Inventing English a portable history of the language / Seth Lerer.

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Main Author: Lerer, Seth, 1955-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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300 |a viii, 305 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a English language  |x Etymology. 
650 0 |a English language  |y Old English, ca. 450-1100. 
650 0 |a English language  |y Middle English, 1100-1500. 
650 0 |a Linguistics. 
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