Shaw Lecturer in Old and Middle English, University of SheffieldĬambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 1993, 2000, 2009 This publication is in copyright. Beal Professor of English Language, University of Sheffield The English Language A Historical Introduction Second Edition Charles Barber Formerly Reader in English Language and Literature, University of Leeds Obler and Kris Gjerlow: Language and the Brain Shula Chiat: Understanding Children with Language Problems William O’Grady: How Children Learn Language
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Also in the series Jean Aitchison: The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution Jean Aitchison: Language Change: Progress or Decay? Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen: Corpus Linguistics William Downes: Language and Society. The series will give readers an understanding of the multifaceted nature of language, and its central position in human affairs, as well as equipping those who wish to find out more about linguistics with a basis from which to read some of the more technical literature in books and journals. Second, it aims to provide links between branches of linguistics that are traditionally separate.
First, it hopes to outline the ‘state of play’ in key areas of the subject, concentrating on what is happening now, rather than on surveying the past. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics is an attempt to solve this problem by presenting current findings in a lucid and nontechnical way. But when newcomers try to discover more about the subject, a major problem faces them – the technical and often narrow nature of much writing about linguistics. Its findings are now of interest to psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, teachers, speech therapists and numerous others who have realized that language is of crucial importance in their life and work. School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield.Ĭambridge Approaches to Linguistics General editor: Jean Aitchison, Emeritus Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford In the past twenty-five years, linguistics – the systematic study of language – has expanded dramatically. shaw is Lecturer in Old and Middle English in the beal is Professor of English Language in the School ofĮnglish Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. charles barber was formerly Reader in English LanguageĪnd Literature at the University of Leeds.
Clear explanations of linguistic ideas and terms make it the ideal introduction for students on courses in English language and linguistics, and for all readers fascinated by language. This edition adds new material on English as a global language and explains the differences between the main varieties of English around the world. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Addison, the book tells you everything you need to know about the English language, where it came from and where it’s going to. In response to demand from readers, a brand new chapter on late Modern English has been added for this edition. The English Language Where does today’s English come from? This new edition of the bestseller by Charles Barber tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day.
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