牛津英语语言史

章节摘录

Transition——between different language states, between different speakers, and different texts——proves a further enduring theme throughout the volume. While transitions in geographical space inform the diversities analysed in Chapters 2 and 4, for example, with their central focus on Old and Middle English respect-ively, it is the working-out of change in progress——-of transitions in usage-which preoccupies other chapters. The history of English is, in this sense, not a series of static states but, at each and every point in time, patterns of variation reveal the cross-currents of change, whether in the gradual marginalization or loss of older forms, alongside the rise of newer and incoming ones. Susan Irvine examines the strategic intersections of internal and external history in Anglo-Saxon England;Jeremy Smith explores the transitions of the fifteenth century in Chapter 5, a boundary between the conventionally designated 'Middle English' and that of'early modern English'. Terttu Nevalainen in Chapter 7 uses the evidence of letters and trials to examine a number of significant changes as they took place in the later years of the Renaissance.…… 

书籍目录

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Key to Phonetic Symbols

Introduction: A History of English

Lynda Mugglestone

1.Preliminaries: Before English

Terry Hoad

2.Beginnings and Transitions: Old English

Susan Irvine

3.Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French

Matthew Townend

4.Middle English——Dialects and Diversity

Marilyn Corrie

From Middle to Early Modern English

Jeremy J.Smith

6.Restructuring Renaissance English

April McMahon

7.Mapping Change in Tudor English

Terttu Nevalainen

8.The Babel of Renaissance English

Paula Blank

9.English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

10.English in the Nineteenth Century

Lynda Mugglestone

11.Modern Regional English in the British Isles

Clive Upton

12.English Among the Languages

Richard W Bailey

13.English World-wide in the Twentieth Century

Tom McArthur

14.Into the Twenty-first Century

David Crystal

A Chronology ofEnglish

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

References

Index

作者简介

本书阐释了英语的演变过程，由十四篇专题文章组合而成，各章节大致以历史时序排列，在内容上又相对独立。参与创作的十四位专家大多是在各自研究领域具有相当影响力的知名教授。一卷在手，便能对一千五六百年的英语变迁历史有一个全面的了解，同时也为后续更深入的研究打下坚实的基础。

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