Overview
Tells the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space
Argues that in spite of the amazing variety and plurality of English, it remains a single language
Written at a level which enables the individual student reader as well as the classroom-based reader and the English language teacher to draw on the considerable learning which lies behind the book
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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English: The Working Tongue of the Global Village
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History of an Island Language
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The Spread of English Around the World
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A Changing Language in Changing Times
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Geoffrey Leech (1935-2014) was Research Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Author, co-author, or co-editor of some 25 books and 100 papers or articles on varied aspects of linguistics and the English language, he was a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea. He was the author of widely used introductions to Semantics and Pragmatics, co-author with Mike Short of A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, and co-author with Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad of English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction.
David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. He is the author or editor of over a hundred books on aspects of linguistics and the English language, such as The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, The Stories of English, Language and the Internet, and Evolving English. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 1995 was awarded an OBE for services to the English Language.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: English – One Tongue, Many Voices
Authors: Jan Svartvik, Geoffrey Leech
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-16007-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55021-7Published: 01 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55022-4Published: 25 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-16007-2Published: 21 June 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 301
Topics: English, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Language History, Language Change