Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Professor of English Sociohistorical

An Introduction to Late Modern English

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Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to Late Modern English.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 136mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780748625987
• ISBN-10: 0748625984
• Artikelnr.: 25834105

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has a chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She is the director of a VICI research project called The Codifiers and the English Language: Tracing the Norms of Standard English.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Spoken English
3. Spelling
4. Vocabulary and early dictionaries
5. Grammar and grammars
6. Language and social networks
7. The Language of Letters
8. Conclusion
9. Texts.