A History of the English Language in 100 Places - Hardcover

Bill Lucas; Christopher Mulvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709095708 ISBN 13: 9780709095705

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

A History of the English Language in 100 Places is a joyous ride through time, where readers can criss-cross the British Isles and the world at large to land in a hundred contrasting places and light on a hundred wonderful topics that bring the extraordinary story of the English language alive. Any selection of places is inevitably personal. Nevertheless, a number of criteria have directed the selection process in this book. Some places represent historic firsts, some are tied to significant people and some have seen events that have shaped the future of English. Each one takes the reader on an unmissable journey into the rich past of the English tongue. What began as the language of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes on a small island has become a global property owned and shaped by almost 2 billion English speakers across the world. English has borrowed words from more than 350 languages, and many more languages have borrowed words from English. In an age of cheap air travel and internet communication we have become a global village. If you've ever been curious about the global language that binds us all together, A History of the English Language in 100 Places is for you.

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Review:

What a brilliant idea! I love this book. Its structure is ingenious, its content endlessly fascinating. There are many ways to display the history of a language, especially one with such a rich history as English, and this is one of the most ingenious and revealing I ve ever seen. --Phillip Pullman, Author

About the Author:

Bill Lucas is Professor of Learning and Co-Director at the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester. The best-selling and award-winning author of more than forty books which have been widely translated, he is also a trustee of The English Project, Chairman of The Talent Foundation and a Patron of Pegasus Theatre, Oxford. Christopher Mulvey is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Winchester. A prolific writer, he is also Managing Editor at the Winchester University Press and a trustee of the English Project. He has received awards from the Arts and Humanities Council, the British Academy, and the University of Virginia. He was President of the Collegium for African American Research from 2003 to 2007 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0709095708
• ISBN 13: 9780709095705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256