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  • How English Became English

    A short history of a global language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language, examining how the language continues to adapt even today, as English continues to find new speakers and new uses. Engaging with ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The English Language

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today, and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Chaucer's Language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.Chaucer's Language leads the reader gently through basic linguistic concepts with appropriate explanation, highlighting how Chaucer's English differs from present-day English, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Bagels, Bumf, and Buses

    A Day in the Life of the English Language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Does Spelling Matter?

    de Simon Horobin ...
    This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today. While good spelling is seen as socially and educationally desirable, many people struggle to spell common words like accommodate, occurrence, dependent. Is it our spelling system that is to blame, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Chaucer's Language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than modern translation.Chaucer's Language- leads the reader ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Introduction to Middle English

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Series series Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language

    $24.99 USD

  • Charles d'Orléans' English Aesthetic

    The Form, Poetics, and Style of <I>Fortunes Stabilnes</I>

    de R.D. Perry, John A. Burrow, Philip Knox, Richard Ingham, Simon Horobin, Ad Putter, Andrea Denny-Brown, B. S. W. Barootes, Elizaveta Strakhov0, Eric Weiskott1, Jenni Nuttall2, Jeremy J. Smith3 ...
    The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orléans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which ithas most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England

    Essays in Honour of Linne R. Mooney

    de Holly James-Maddocks, Professor Michael G Sargent, Joel Fredell, Professor Wendy Scase, Susan Powell, Professor Daniel W Mosser, Simon Horobin, Derek Pearsall, Daryl Green0, Margaret Connolly2, Martha W. Driver3, Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton4, Ralph Hanna5, Estelle Stubbs6, Professor Sebastian Sobecki7 ...
    Series Libro 3 - York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
    Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Linne R. Mooney, Emeritus Professor of Palaeography at the University of York, has significantly advanced the study of later medieval English book production, particularly our knowledge of individual scribes; this collection honours her distinguished scholarship and responds to her wide-ranging research ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The English Language

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Narrado por Shaun Grindell ...

    Completo

    4 hora 44 minutos

    The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today, and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Bagels, Bumf, and Buses

    A Day in the Life of the English Language

    de Simon Horobin ...
    Narrado por Shaun Grindell ...

    Completo

    7 hora 1 minutos

    Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities—getting ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Audiolibro

    Canada

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Donald Wright ...
    Narrado por Matthew Josdal ...

    Completo

    4 hora 41 minutos

    Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this contemporary openness Canada also has its own history to contend with; with a legacy of broken treaties and residential schools for its Indigenous peoples, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook