English: One Tongue, Many Voices

by Geoffrey N. Leech and Jan Svartvik

Book Overview

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403918309
• ISBN13: 9781403918307
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"