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Author | : David Britain |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2007-08-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107320127 |
The British Isles are home to a vast range of different spoken and signed languages and dialects. Language continues to evolve rapidly, in its diversity, in the number and the backgrounds of its speakers, and in the repercussions it has had for political and educational affairs. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles. Topics covered include the history of English; the relationship between Standard and Non-Standard Englishes; the major non-standard varieties spoken on the islands; and the history of multilingualism; and the educational and planning implications of linguistic diversity in the British Isles. Among the many dialects and languages surveyed by the volume are British Black English, Celtic languages, Chinese, Indian, European migrant languages, British Sign Language, and Anglo-Romani. Clear and accessible in its approach, it will be welcomed by students in sociolinguistics, English language, and dialectology, as well as anyone interested more generally in language within British society.
Author | : Daniel Smith |
Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2014-12-08 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1782433821 |
The definitive guide to the vibrant and inventive language of the East End, featuring history, trivia and anecdotes.
Author | : Mark Sebba |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131789717X |
London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic background of the community, with special emphasis on young people of the first and second British-born generations.
Author | : Samuel Pegge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Peter Trudgill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1984-05-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521240574 |
Author | : Thomas Docherty |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350101400 |
From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally degraded political culture.
Author | : Samuel Pegge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : David Crystal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107611806 |
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Author | : Hoyt H. London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Vocational teachers |
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Author | : Rebecca Mead |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-07-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0593081242 |
A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror). When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she’d given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself? In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and art, recent and ancient history, and the experience of encounters with individuals, environments, and landscapes in New York City and in England, Mead artfully explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance. She recounts her time in the coastal town of Weymouth, where she grew up; her dizzying first years in New York where she broke into journalism; the rich process of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London. Along the way, she gradually reckons with the complex legacy of her parents. Home/Land is a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been.