Julia aldridge (1 resultados)
Idioma: Inglés
Editorial: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1986. 1986
Serie: Penguin Critical Studies, Libro 30 de 37. Libro 30 de 37 - Penguin Critical Studies
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Librería: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, Estados Unidos de AmericaJoseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st American Ed., 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. ; ISBN 9780670804672, 0670804673 ; OCLC 13455507 ; LOC No PE1075 .M58 1986 ; Dewey 420/.9 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Library Journal: A tie-in for a nine-part television series to be broadcast over… PBS beginning in September, this is a wide-ranging account of the travels and changes of the English tongue from its beginnings to tomorrow, from England to America to Australia to Africa and India and the Pacific. Despite an occasionally perceptible British bias, the authors have tried hard to paint a colorful, vivid picture of the many faces and varieties of English. The text is never dull, but is enlivened by innumerable examples and by interviews with representative individuals: a minister in Scotland, a couple from the Appalachians, a storekeeper in Newfoundland, a Philadelphia shoeshine man, a cockney fruitseller, an Australian farm family, the president of Sierra Leone, a writing professor in India. ; "Elisabeth Sifton books." ; Contents: Introduction: Speaking of English -- An English-speaking world -- The mother tongue -- A muse of fire -- The guid Scots tongue -- The Irish question -- Black on white -- Pioneers! O pioneers! -- The new Englishes -- Next year's words ; FINE/FINE. Book.
