牛津英語語言史

內(nèi)容概要

《牛津英語語言史》闡釋了英語的演變過程，由十四篇專題文章組合而成，各章節(jié)大致以歷史時序排列，在內(nèi)容上又相對獨立。參與創(chuàng)作的十四位專家大多是在各自研究領(lǐng)域具有相當影響力的知名教授。一卷在手，便能對一千五六百年的英語變遷歷史有一個全面的了解，同時也為后續(xù)更深入的研究打下堅實的基礎(chǔ)?！杜＝蛴⒄Z語言史》由Lynda
Mugglestone編著。

書籍目錄

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Key to Phonetic Symbols
  Introduction: A History of English
  Lynda Mugglestone
1. Preliminaries: Before English
  Terry Hoad
2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English
  Susan lrvine
3. Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French
  Matthew Townend
4. Middle English--Dialects and Diversity
  Marilyn Corrie
5. From Middle to Early Modern English
  Jeremy J. Smith
6. Restructuring Renaissance English
  April McMahon
7. Mapping Change in Tudor English
  Terttu Nevalainen
8. The Babel of Renaissance English
  Paula Blank
9. English at the Onset of the Normative Tradition
  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
10. English in the Nineteenth Century
  Lynda Mugglestone
11. Modern Regional English in the British Isles
  Clive Upton
12. English Among the Languages
  Richard W. Bailey
13. English World-wide in the Twentieth Century
  Tom McArthur
14. Into the Twenty-first Century
  David Crystal
A Chronology of English
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
References
Index

章節(jié)摘錄

Transition——between different language states, between different speakers, and different texts——proves a further enduring theme throughout the volume. While transitions in geographical space inform the diversities analysed in Chapters 2 and 4, for example, with their central focus on Old and Middle English respect-ively, it is the working-out of change in progress——-of transitions in usage-which preoccupies other chapters. The history of English is, in this sense, not a series of static states but, at each and every point in time, patterns of variation reveal the cross-currents of change, whether in the gradual marginalization or loss of older forms, alongside the rise of newer and incoming ones. Susan Irvine examines the strategic intersections of internal and external history in Anglo-Saxon England;Jeremy Smith explores the transitions of the fifteenth century in Chapter 5, a boundary between the conventionally designated 'Middle English' and that of'early modern English'. Terttu Nevalainen in Chapter 7 uses the evidence of letters and trials to examine a number of significant changes as they took place in the later years of the Renaissance.…… 

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