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Nineteenth-Century English
Richard W. Bailey
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Description for Nineteenth-Century English
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in which English changed over the course of the nineteenth century. In Nineteenth-Century English, Richard W. Bailey treads new ground by showing the extent to which the language changed as cultural and economic transformations brought us into the modern world.
Six aspects of nineteenth-century English are treated in separate chapters: writing, sounds, words, slang, grammar, and "voices." In each domain, innovation and obsolescence are discussed as they were observed by contemporary writers. Thus Bailey shows how linguistic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press ELT
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472085408
SKU
V9780472085408
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99-50
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