The Stories of English
The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a quarter of the human race. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million? What developments can be seen as we move from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day? A host of fascinating questions are answered in The Stories of English, a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Many books have been written about English, but they have all focused on a s…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4683-0617-0
- EAN: 9781468306170
- Produktnummer: 29832265
- Verlag: Abrams
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'944 KB
Über den Autor
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and the editor of The Penguin Encyclopedia.
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