The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 3
transmission, change and ideology
$529.63
- Hardcover
832 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
A Language in Flux: Tracing the Evolution of English
How language change manifests itself throughout English history is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English through dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means found today. The chapters investigate various issues in language change, for instance what role internal and external factors played throughout history.
There are several chapters dedicated to change in different areas and o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009205863 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009205862 |
| Series: | The New Cambridge History of the English Language |
| Author: | Joan C. Beal |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Joan C. Beal
Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Sheffield. She is an editor of De Gruyter Dialects of English series, co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism (2003), author of English in Modern Times 1700–1945 (2004), and co-author of The English Language (third edition, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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