English : one tongue, many voices / Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech.
English : one tongue, many voices / Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech.
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N427/36
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Language
English
Swedish
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Physical content
xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. English - the working tongue of the global village -- 2. The first 500 years -- 3. 1066 and all that -- 4. Modern English in the making -- 5. English goes to the new world -- 6. English transplanted -- 7. English varieties in the British Isles -- 8. American and British English -- 9. From Caribbe...
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"Two internationally distinguished English language scholars tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. They trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its incre...
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English : one tongue, many voices / Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N427/36
Record Identifier
74VKJDjr5kLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKJDjr5kLX
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1403918309 (pbk.) :
1403918295 (hbk.) :
9781403918291 (hbk.) :
9781403918307 (pbk.) :
DDC
427
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991022065659702626
