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23 produkter
Language Anxiety
Conflict and Change in the History of English
E-bok, 2009
831 kr
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This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and …
What is English?
And Why Should We Care?
E-bok, 2013
269 kr
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English ? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language''s present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for …
English Begins at Jamestown
Narrating the History of a Language
E-bok, 2022
336 kr
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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind …
English Begins at Jamestown
Narrating the History of a Language
E-bok, 2022
336 kr
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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind …
What is English?
And Why Should We Care?
Häftad, 2016
375 kr
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for …
English Begins at Jamestown
Narrating the History of a Language
Inbunden, 2022
460 kr
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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives.English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind …
Languages, Legends, and American Dreams
The Emergence of English in Multilingual America, 1750-1850
E-bok, 2026
739 kr
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Languages, Legends, and American Dreams concerns the development of an American language narrative in the formative years 1750-1850 - from the United States' emergence out of disparate colonies, to its expansion across the North American continent, to the approach of a Civil War that threatened its …
Languages, Legends, and American Dreams
The Emergence of English in Multilingual America, 1750-1850
E-bok, 2026
739 kr
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Languages, Legends, and American Dreams concerns the development of an American language narrative in the formative years 1750–1850 - from the United States'' emergence out of disparate colonies, to its expansion across the North American continent, to the approach of a Civil War that threatened …
Languages, Legends, and American Dreams
The Emergence of English in Multilingual America, 1750–1850
Inbunden, 2026
1300 kr
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Languages, Legends, and American Dreams concerns the development of an American language narrative in the formative years 1750–1850 - from the United States' emergence out of disparate colonies, to its expansion across the North American continent, to the approach of a Civil War that threatened its …
Language Anxiety
Conflict and Change in the History of English
Inbunden, 2009
1507 kr
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This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and …
What is English?
And Why Should We Care?
Inbunden, 2013
517 kr
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for …
Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts
Inbunden, 1994
899 kr
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This text examines the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterise Middle English and reveals the role these factors play in the editing and interpretation of these works. It shows how and why humanist textual criticism is inappropriate for Middle English texts.
Imagining Medieval English
Language Structures and Theories, 500-1500
Inbunden, 2016
1117 kr
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Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. …
Imagining Medieval English
Language Structures and Theories, 500-1500
Häftad, 2019
654 kr
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Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. …
From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and Historical Imagination
Av Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason
Inbunden, 2020
1411 kr
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This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to …
From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and historical imagination
Av Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to …
From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and historical imagination
Av Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to …
Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2020
1411 kr
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This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in …
Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in …
Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
E-bok, 2020
1394 kr
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This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in …
From Iceland to the Americas
Vinland and historical imagination
Av Tim William Machan, Jón Karl Helgason
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to …
Sources of the Boece
Inbunden, 2005
2692 kr
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Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae was among the most persistent and extensive influences on Chaucer’s writing. Its ideas appear in various works, including the Knight’s Tale and Troilus and Criseyde, while the so-called Boethian balades offer poetic renditions of small sections of the …
