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English - one tongue, many voices.
- Title
- English - one tongue, many voices.
- Author
- Svartvik, Jan.
- Publication
- [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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- Description
- xvii, 301 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- 1. English : the working tongue of the global village -- Part I. History of an island language. 2. The first 500 years -- 3. 1066 and all that -- 4. Modern English in the making -- -- Part II. The spread of English around the world. 5. English goes to the new world -- 6. English transplanted -- 7. English varieties in the British Isles -- 8. American and British English -- 9. English, pidgins and creoles -- -- Part III. A changing language in changing times. 10. The standard language today -- 11. Linguistic change in progress : back to the inner circle -- 12. Electronic English -- 13. English into the future.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10577
- ISBN
- 113755021X
- 9781137550217
- OCLC
- 939532117
- Author
- Svartvik, Jan.
- Title
- English - one tongue, many voices.
- Imprint
- [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10577