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Há 2 dias · This introductory chapter provides overview of the book and the subsequent chapters. The subsequent chapters give an account of the history and development of a number of distinct and highly diversified varieties of English those varieties in varying degrees are recognisably different from one another and from standard British and standard American English.
English relies mainly on word order (usually subject-verb-object) to indicate relationships between words (see syntax). Written in the Latin alphabet, it is most closely related to Frisian, German, and Dutch. Its history began with the migration of the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons from Germany and Denmark to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
However, just three thousand years ago, the language-which-became-English was not spoken anywhere in Britain. Trudgill, one of the foremost authorities on the English language, takes us on a remarkable journey through the history of English to show how it grew to become the global phenomenon that we know today.
After studying this chapter, you should be able to discuss: the diversity of English through history and around the world. the effect of social and cultural factors on an individual’s use of English. the relationship between a person’s linguistic heritage and their sense of identity. the ways in which different varieties of English in use ...
English became the established national language just at the point in history when colonial expansion was beginning. It was the spoken and written language of the first men and women from Britain to settle in the Americas; and it was a language that went round the world with England's early traders, commercial adventurers and missionaries.
About The Cambridge History of the English Language. The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full and authoritative account of the history of English. Each chapter gives a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of ...
16 de jul. de 2015 · View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-did-english-come-from-claire-bowernWhen we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language....
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