Inventing English : : A Portable History of the Language / / Seth Lerer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lerer, Seth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• 出版年: 2015
• 版: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• 语言: English
• 实物描述: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; A Note on Texts and Letter Forms --; Preface to the Revised Edition --; INTRODUCTION: Finding English, Finding Us --; 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing --; 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan --; 3. In This Year --; 4. From Kingdom to Realm --; 5. Lord of This Langage --; 6. I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye --; 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English --; 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose --; 9. I Do, I Will --; 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild --; 11. Visible Speech --; 12. A Harmless Drudge --; 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas --; 14. Antses in the Sugar --; 15. Hello, Dude --; 16. Ready for the Funk --; 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest --; 18. Listening to Private Ryan --; 19. He Speaks in Your Voice --; 20. Faith in English --; Epilogue: The Talk and the Text --; Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation --; Glossary --; References and Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition --; Index
• 格式: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231541244; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/lere17447
• 访问: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Seth Lerer.