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Alternative Histories of English
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Product Description
This groundbreaking book deviates from the standard or "textbook" way of looking at the history of the English language.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #949694 in Books
- Published on: 2002-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'This book is quite innovative. It seeks to promulgate, and rightly so, the history of nonstandard varieties of English as contributing to our overall knowledge of the development of the language ... I can recommend this publication for those interested in English as well as Englishes.' - Alan S. Kaye, Multilingua
'This volume is an excellent introduction to the issues ... it is extremely commendable that all authors have worked very hard to make their contributions readable to an audience which inevitably has little prior knowledge of the area ...' - International Journal of Applied Linguistics
This book is quite innovative. It seeks to promulgate, and rightly so, the history of nonstandard varieties of English as contributing to our overall knowledge of the development of the language ... I can recommend this publication for those interested in English as well as Englishes. - Alan S. Kaye, Multilingua
About the Author
Richard Watts teaches in the Department of English at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Peter Trudgill teaches in the Department of English at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
