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The History of English provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the evolution of the language.

A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard American and British English individually and in comparison with each other.

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The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language, from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the development of the language from Old English through Middle English to Modern Global English, all illustrated with a rich and diverse selection of primary texts showing changes...

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The Bielefeld Introduction to Applied Linguistics is designed to provide a wide-ranging and substantial overview of the field for beginning students. It comprises twenty-seven well-documented contributions based on some of the most salient topics in research and teaching done at the Department of Linguistics and Literature at Bielefeld University.In four major sections this book looks at questions involving the user/learner (teaching/learning ...

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English. In one volume the book presents a description of both the linguistic structure of present-day English and its geographical, social, gender, and ethnic variations.Covering new developments such as the impact of email on language and corpus-based grammars, this accessible text has been extensively rewri...

The History of English: An Introduction examines developments and changes in the pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and use of language due both to the internal dynamics of English and to its contact with other languages. It does this with an eye to the social context and global spread of English and covers a period of time from before its establishment in Britain around the year 350 to the present.