By Hook Or By Crook A Journey In Search Of English

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007284063
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English written by David Crystal and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.

Author : Michael Kenny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191016144
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of English Nationhood written by Michael Kenny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Political Studies Association WJM MacKenzie Prize for best book of 2014 The Politics of English Nationhood supplies the first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness, exploring its varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications and dimensions. It examines the difficulties which the major political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question' against the backdrop of the diminishing hold of established ideas of British government and national identity in the final years of the last century. And it explores a range of factors—including insecurities generated by economic change, Euroscepticism, and a growing sense of cultural anxiety — which helped make the renewal of Englishness appealing and imperative, prior to the introduction of devolution by the first Blair government, a policy which also gave this process a further impetus. The book therefore provides a powerful challenge to the two established orthodoxies in this area. These either maintain that the English are dispositionally unable to assert their own nationhood outside the framework of the British state, or point to the supposed resurgence of a resentful and reactive sense of English nationalism. This volume instead demonstrates that a renewed, resonant and internally divided sense of English nationhood is apparent across the lines of class, geography, age, and ethnicity. And it identifies several distinct strands of national identity that have emerged in this period, contrasting the appearance of populist and resentful forms of English nationalism with an embedded and deeply rooted sense of conservative Englishness and attempts to reconstruct a more liberal and civic idea of a multicultural England. This volume also includes a wide-ranging analysis of the culturally rooted revival of Englishness, drawing out the political dimensions and implications of this re-emerging form of national consciousness.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654592
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of English in 100 Words written by David Crystal and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering).

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770223932
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eish, but is it English? written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What makes South African English different? Have you ever wondered where the words ‘gogga’, ‘tsotsi’ and ‘larney’ come from? Did you know that the first sentence uttered by a South African in English may have been spoken by a Khoikhoi man in 1613? South African English is unique and is made up of several varieties. This entertaining and informative book looks at the forms of English spoken here, where they come from and how they fit into the spectrum of world Englishes. Humorous and engaging, it is packed with common expressions, slang, grammatical variations and distinctive South African words and phrases, including ‘just now’, ‘busy waiting’ and, of course, ‘eish’. The book explores the influence of Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa and other languages on English as it is spoken in the diverse context of South Africa. It considers the social implications of language, questions notions of correctness and incorrectness, and celebrates South African English for its innovations and expressiveness. Eish, but is it English? is a book for everyone who is interested in the way we use language and make it our own. "

Author : Trish Winter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103559
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Englishness written by Trish Winter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the only study of its kind, the authors explore how the folk resurgence speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the subject of English national and cultural identity. Combining approaches from British cultural studies and ethnomusicology, the book draws on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews with central figures of the resurgence and close analysis of music and dance as well as visual and discursive sources. Its presentation of the English case study calls for a rethinking of concepts such as revival and indigeneity. It will be of interest to students and scholars in cultural studies, ethnomusicology and related disciplines.

Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374254109
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Words written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secret Life of Words" is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind societies of its past.

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468306251
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking English written by David Crystal and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed linguist, “part travelogue, part memoir, and part meditation on the intellectual and emotional underpinnings of language. . . . Priceless.” (Booklist) In this discursive jaunt through the groves and thickets of the English language, David Crystal creates an entertaining narrative account of his encounters with the language and its speakers. Woven from personal reflections, historical allusions, and observations of travelers, this fascinating journey through the language we use every day will have readers thinking twice about each word they speak. Starting in Wales and moving from England to San Francisco by way of, yes, Poland, Crystal encounters numerous linguistic side roads that he cannot resist exploring, from pubs to trains to Tolkien. Walking English is a captivating exploration of language by “one of England’s greatest living language commentators.” (The New Statesman) “In a conversational style that includes plenty of quirky facts, Crystal captures the exploratory, seductive, teasing, quirky, tantalizing nature of language study, and in doing so illuminates the fascinating world of words in which we live.” —Publishers Weekly “An informative, transformative trip into the mysterious, mutating, magical thicket of English.” (Kirkus Reviews) “Like passing the afternoon with a knowledgeable uncle.” —The Wall Street Journal “The Dr. Johnson of our age.” —The Sunday Herald “The book reads like a donnish Bill Bryson, a Bryson possessed with a maniacal passion for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language! . . . [A] compelling guide.” —Independent “Crystal proves an entertaining companion! It is pleasant to ramble with him along the byways of language.” —The Tablet

Author : Anjali Pandey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340363
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction written by Anjali Pandey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism.

Author : Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184641
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture in Dialogue written by Andrew J. Strathern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language.

Author : Rahma Al-Mahrooqi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443860700
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focusing on EFL Reading written by Rahma Al-Mahrooqi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading, a complex and multi-faceted skill, is essential for life and academic success. While its mysteries still baffle first-language research, the nature of reading in a foreign language presents an even greater puzzle. However, given reading’s importance for EFL students who study their specializations in English, and whose future employment may depend on their competence in it, researchers must continue to investigate foreign language reading and devise ways of improving students’ capacity for it. Hence, this book, with its thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice and research, will be of great value in today’s educational context. As they strive to understand reading and help EFL students to acquire it, researchers and language teachers will find much of value here.