The American Language
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1616402598
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The English Language in America
A History of the English Language
Author: Richard Hogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1139451294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.
English in America
Author: Richard Ohmann
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780819562944
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A History of American English
Author: J. L. Dillard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1317899598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
The American Language
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780344067099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
ENGLISH: America and England
Author: El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2022-01-05
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 2322422193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an attempt to cover the history, language and culture of two most famous superpowers of the 20th and 21st centuries and evaluate their impact, glory and tribulations. Like a man's life, it has its ups and downs which can balance his human value, shared between qualities and shortcomings. This is a rather optimistic goal to try and summarize the long Anglo-Saxon history from the Stonehenge era to Donald Trump's Proud Boys' storming of the Capitol; many centuries indeed. This is in what concerns the people of these great nations. As far as their language is concerned English, it is a great language with a long history (Old, Middle and Modern). It is the language of Shakespeare.
If Only They Didn't Speak English
Author: Jon Sopel
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 147353075X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’ ‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson ‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis **With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power** As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughing stock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as ‘a beauty’ by none other than Donald Trump. Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship. But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. It is fearful, angry and impatient for change. In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon Sopel sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams, but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.
Do You Speak American?
Author: Robert Macneil
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307423573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
You Are In America: Speak English!
Author: Celia Dolan
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2006-03-20
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781419633546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celia Dolan argues for the right of the American people to communicate in their national language, English. While our country should-and does-welcome foreign immigrants, one requirement for citizenship should be that the applicant be able to speak English with reasonable fluency. This not only preserves and passes on a sense of national pride, it prevents potentially dangerous miscommunication.
