A Cultural History of the English Language - Paperback

by Gerry Knowles (Author)

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The
author uses the findings from this research to relate major historical events to change in the language, in particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis, stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles.

Author Biography

Gerry Knowles eas formerly Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, UK.