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Author: Richard J. Watts
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195327608
Size: 35.98 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Book Description: Language Myths and the History of English deconstructs common myths about the historical development of English and looks at the ideological reasons for their existence.

Author: Mary Hayes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190611049
Size: 24.19 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Book Description: -First Edition published in Paperback 2001.-

Author: Richard J. Watts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107112710
Size: 26.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Book Description: The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.

Author: Joey Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN: 149621210X
Size: 67.59 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Book Description: In Delusions of Grandeur Joey Franklin examines the dreams and delusions of America's most persistent mythologies--including the beliefs in white supremacy and rugged individualism and the problems of toxic masculinity and religious extremism--as they reveal themselves in the life of a husband and father fast approaching forty. With prose steeped in research and a playful, lyric attention to language, Franklin asks candid questions about what it takes to see clearly as a citizen, a parent, a child, a neighbor, and a human being. How should a white father from the suburbs talk with his sons about the death of Trayvon Martin? What do video games like Fortnite and Minecraft reveal about our appetites for destruction? Is it possible for Americans to celebrate bootstrap pioneer history while also lamenting the slavery that made it possible? How does the American tradition of exploiting cheap labor create a link between coal mining and plasma donation in southeast Ohio? Part cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political, and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.

Author: Peter Grund
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110643286
Size: 56.52 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Book Description: This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.

Author: Alfred Hix Welsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 28.14 MB
Format: PDF
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 526
View: 7009

Book Description:

Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111825726X
Size: 76.16 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Book Description: Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language

Author: Mario Saraceni
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1623564522
Size: 73.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Book Description: Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2016 The field of "World Englishes" takes on ever more importance in the modern era. Mario Saraceni's World Englishes: A Critical Analysis looks at the developments in the field from a critical perspective. It examines the historical, linguistic, ideological and pedagogical aspects in the study of the ever-evolving forms, roles and statuses of English around the world. The principal aim is to offer a critical overview of the field in order both to inform readers about the main issues at stake and to challenge established positions and descriptive/analytical paradigms. The book has four sections, each of which reviews established accounts and offers alternative perspectives on those. "History†? considers representations of the evolution of 'old English' and 'new Englishes' and begins to unveil the strong link between conventional accounts and ideological motivations. "Language†? critically examines the traditional notion of 'difference' in the description of varieties of English, and discusses more recent orientations which aim to describe English as a lingua franca and the phenomenon of language hybridity. "Ideology†? examines ideological debates around the presence and status of English in the world, such as linguistic imperialism, language ownership and language ecology. The final section, "Pedagogy†? discusses pedagogical implications, such as the choice of appropriate 'models' of English and considers the possibility of teaching English as a fully de-anglicised language.

Author: Herbert Augustus Strong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 61.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 435
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Book Description:

Author: A. Sudhakar Rao
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171569113
Size: 39.40 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Book Description: Myth-History Combine Marks The Ruling Motive Of The Contemporary Indian Novel In English.In Amitav Ghosh S The Circle Of Reason, Reason Makes A Full Circle And Is Subjected To Subversion Towards The End With A Post-Modern Ambivalence.In The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor Is Given To Gigantism Of History And Makes Great Political Personages Parade On The Dice Game Of National Politics, As A Part Of Post-Colonial Discourse. Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children Is An Enabling Text . The Text Synchronises The Individual History With National History Lending It A Universal Significance.The Texts Seek To Picture The Socio-Political Situation Of Post-Independence India With A Post-Modern Urgency.

Author: Stopford Augustus Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 62.60 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Book Description:

Author: Robert H. MacDonald
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719037498
Size: 20.88 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Book Description: The author defines the role of discourse in determining this perception of reality - looking at the construction of Empire through the huge body of popular texts ranging from fiction, poetry and children's stories to history and biography. This study will appeal to readers interested in British imperialism, those engaging in literature and cultural studies as well as to specialists in colonial history.