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English - One Tongue, Many Voices

Paperback • 2016 • English

English - One Tongue, Many Voices

By Jan Svartvik

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About the book

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 a...Show more

Language: reference and general
Sociolinguistics

Book details

ISBN

9781137550224

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

English - One Tongue, Many Voices

Format

Paperback

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