{"product_id":"inventing-english-a-portable-history-of-the-language-revised-and-expanded-edition-9780231174473","title":"Inventing English  A Portable History of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A personal, selective, and impassioned journey through the history of English.\"-Times Higher Education Supplement\"An invigorating read for the mind and the mouth.\"-Bloomsbury Review\"Lerer not only navigates the shifting currents and boiling rapids of English, but also explores its secret coves.\"-Advocate\"[A] remarkable linguistic investigation.\"-Booklist\"Written with real authority, enthusiasm, and love for our unruly and exquisite language.\"-Washington Post\"The book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.\"-Publishers Weekly\"Erudite and accessible.\"-Globe \u0026amp; Mail\"An unusual linguistic and literary feast.\"-Michigan Quarterly Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Texts and Letter Forms Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction: Finding English, Finding Us 1. Caedmon Learns to Sing: Old English and the Origins of Poetry 2. From Beowulf to Wulfstan: The Language of Old English Literature 3. In This Year: The Politics of Language and the End of Old English 4. From Kingdom to Realm: Middle English in a French World 5. Lord of This Langage: Chaucer's English 6. I Is as Ille as a Millere Are Ye: Middle English Dialects 7. The Great Vowel Shift and the Changing Character of English 8. Chancery, Caxton, and the Making of English Prose 9. I Do, I Will: Shakespeare's English 10. A Universal Hubbub Wild: New Words and Worlds in Early Modern English 11. Visible Speech: The Orthoepists and the Origins of Standard English 12. A Harmless Drudge: Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary 13. Horrid, Hooting Stanzas: Lexicography and Literature in American English 14. Antses in the Sugar: Dialect and Regionalism in American English 15. Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom 16. Ready for the Funk: African American English and Its Impact 17. Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest: The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Readers 18. Listening to Private Ryan: War and Language 19. He Speaks in Your Voice: Everybody's English 20. Faith in English: Vernacular Devotion and Biblical Translation Epilogue: The Talk and the Text Appendix: English Sounds and Their Representation Glossary References and Further Reading Acknowledgments Acknowledgments to the Revised Edition Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49885692494167,"sku":"9780231174473","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231174473.jpg?v=1737915601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-english-a-portable-history-of-the-language-revised-and-expanded-edition-9780231174473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}