A Social History of English, 2 edition (repost)
Dick Leith, "A Social History of English, 2 edition"
R,.tledge | 1997 | ISBN: 0415097975 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
R,.tledge | 1997 | ISBN: 0415097975 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation.