Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631560044
ISBN-13
9783631560044
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2014
Print length
207 Pages
Weight
290 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 20.90 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 4,400.00
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This introduction to the history of English includes chapters on language change, the Indo-European background of English, and on Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English. It offers information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres.
This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English. Each period chapter provides information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres, and concludes with study questions and exercises.
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