The English Language: Volume 2, Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters, 1858 1964: 002 - Brossura

Bolton, W

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052109545X ISBN 13: 9780521095457

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

A collection of statements by literary men about the nature and use of the English language, its resources, potentialities and development.

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Descrizione del libro

A collection of statements by literary men and others about the nature and use of the language, its resources, potentialities and development. Volume II starts in 1858 and runs to the 1960s and therefore records the rise first of philology, then of modern linguistic study.

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Charles Dickens: 'Saxon-English' from Household Words; 2. Henry Sweet: 'Words, Logic and Grammar', from Transactions of the Philological Society; 3. Fitzedward Hall: 'English Rational and Irrational', from The Nineteenth Century; 4. Walt Whitman: 'Slang in America' from The North American Review; 5. J. A. H. Murray: 'General Explanations', from the Introduction to A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; 6. George Bernard Shaw: 'A Plea for Speech Nationalisation', letter to The Morning Leader; 7. Robert Bridges: 'The Society's Work', Society for Pure English, Tract XXI; 8. A. Lloyd James: 'Broadcast English', BBC Pamphlet; 9. Logan Pearsall Smith: 'Needed Words', Society for Pure English, Tract XXXI; 10. Edward Sapir: 'Language', from Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; 11. Leonard Bloomfield: 'The Structure of Learned Words', from A Commemorative Volume; 12. Eilert Erkwall: 'The Value of Place-Name Study', from the Introduction to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names; 13. I. A. Richards: 'The Interinanimation of Words', from The Philosophy of Rhetoric; 14. Eric Partridge: 'Slang', Society for Pure English, Tract LV; 15. C. C. Fries: 'The Social Significance of Differences in Language Practice and the Obligation of the Schools', from American English Grammar; 16. George Orwell: 'Politics and the English Language', from Horizon; 17. Bernard Bloch: 'English Verb Inflection', from Language; 18. H. L. Mencken: 'English or American?' from The American Language; 19. R. B. Lees: 'A Multiply Ambiguous Adjectival Construction in English', from Language; 20. H. Kurath and R. I. McDavid: 'Introduction', from The Pronunciation of English in the United States; 21. James Sledd: 'The Lexicographer's Uneasy Chair', from College English; 22. Anthony Burgess: 'Words' from Language Made Plain; Study Questions; Select Index of Literary and Linguistic Topics.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052109545X
• ISBN 13: 9780521095457
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340
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