A Biography of the English Language
A Biography of the English Language
- ISBN 13:
9780495906414
- ISBN 10:
0495906417
- Edition: 3rd
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/01/2011
- Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary
The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.