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18%OFFJan Svartvik - English - One Tongue, Many Voices - 9781403918307 - V9781403918307
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English - One Tongue, Many Voices

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Description for English - One Tongue, Many Voices Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps, diagrams & pictures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFF; EB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. The authors examine the present state of English as a global language and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403918307
SKU
V9781403918307
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99-15

About Jan Svartvik
Jan Svartvik is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is co-author of A Communicative Grammar of English (with Geoffrey Leech) and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech). He has published on other varied aspects of English linguistics, such as corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, contrastive grammar and nautical terminology. ... Read more

Reviews for English - One Tongue, Many Voices
'If you read only one book on the English language-read this one. English - One Tongue, Many Voices covers all aspects of the English language: its global spread, international and local varieties, history from obscurity to primacy, usage and uses, standards and creoles, style and change in progress, politics and controversy. The scope of the book is vast, its depth ... Read more

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