The Oxford History of English

Revised Edition

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

Most up-to-date readable and authoritative single-volume history of English
Covers all the varieties of English throughout the world
Traces English back to its Indo-European roots
Reset and revised edition competitively priced below all its rivals
New chapter featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world

The Oxford History of English

Revised Edition

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

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Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world.

In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo-European origins to the present. They cover the language's versions, written and spoken, revel in its rich variety over fifteen centuries, and chart its varied progress nationally, regionally, and throughout the world. With scholarship at once impeccable and approachable, the authors describe and explain the constantly changing sounds, words, meanings, and grammar of English. This is a book for everyone interested in the language, present and past.

The Oxford History of English

Revised Edition

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

Introduction: A History of the English Language, Lynda Mugglestone
1. Preliminaries: before English, Terry Hoad
2. Beginnings and Transitions: Old English, Susan Irvine
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 Smith
6. Restructuring Renaissance English, April McMahon
7. Mapping Change in Tudor English, Terrtu Nevalainen
8. The Babel of Renaissance English, Paula Blank
9. Speakers and Writers of Eighteenth-century English, 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
TImeline
Table of Phonetic Equivalents
Glossary
References
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index

The Oxford History of English

Revised Edition

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

Author Information

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of History of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. Recent books include Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction and, edited with Freya Johnston, Johnson's Pendulum, both published by Oxford.

Contributors:

Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College
Late Richard W. Bailey
Paula Blank, College of William and Mary
Marilyn Corrie, University College London
David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor
Terry Hoad, St Peter's College
Susan Irvine, University College London
April McMahon, Aberystwyth University
Tom McArthur, Institute of Linguistics, London
Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden
Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow
Matthew Townend, University of York
Clive Upton, University of Leeds

The Oxford History of English

Revised Edition

Edited by Lynda Mugglestone

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By Lynda Mugglestone In 1903, the motto 'Deeds not Words' was adopted by Emmeline Pankhurst as the slogan of the new Women's Social and Political Union. This aimed above all to secure women the vote, but it marked a deliberate departure in the methods to be used. Over fifty years of peaceful campaigning had brought no change to women's rights in this respect; drastic action was, Emmeline decided, now called for.

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