The adventure of English : 500 AD to 2000 : the biography of a language / Melvyn Bragg
2003, First Edition. London : Hodder. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447030
ISBN: 1444730053
Contents; The common tongue -- The great escape -- Conquest -- Holding on -- The speech of kings -- Chaucer -- God's English -- English and the language of the state -- William Tyndale's Bible -- A renaissance of words -- Preparing the ground -- Shakespeare's English -- My America -- Wild West words -- Sold down the river -- Mastering the language -- The proper way to talk -- Stream, streets and slang -- Indian takeover -- The West Indies -- Advance Australia -- Warts and all -- All over the world. Subjects; Language History. English language. Diachronic linguistics.
Price: €14.95