Language History And Class
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Language History And Class
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Author : P. J. Corfield
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1991
Language History And Class written by P. J. Corfield and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre–revolutionary France and 19th–century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence
Standard English And The Politics Of Language
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Author : T. Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-06-24
Standard English And The Politics Of Language written by T. Crowley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-24 with Education categories.
The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades. This second edition of Tony Crowley's wide-ranging historical analysis and lucid account of the complex and sometimes polarised arguments driving the debate brings us up to date, and ranges from the 1830s to Conservative education policies in the 1990s and on to the implications of the National Curriculum for English language teaching in schools. Students and researchers in literacy, the history of English language, cultural theory, and English language education will find this treatment comprehensive, carefully researched and lively reading.
Language History Language Change And Language Relationship
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Author : Hans Henrich Hock
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-08-17
Language History Language Change And Language Relationship written by Hans Henrich Hock and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.
Class Matters
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Author : Simon Middleton
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-03
Class Matters written by Simon Middleton and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-03 with History categories.
As a category of historical analysis, class is dead—or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. As a whole, they chart the emergence of class as a concept and its subsequent loss of analytic purchase in Anglo-American historiography. The opening section considers the dynamics of class relations in the Atlantic world across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—from Iroquoian and Algonquian communities in North America to tobacco lords in Glasgow. Subsequent chapters examine the cultural development of a new and aspirational middle class and its relationship to changing economic conditions and the articulation of corporate and industrial ideologies in the era of the American Revolution and beyond. A final section shifts the focus to the poor and vulnerable—tenant farmers, infant paupers, and the victims of capital punishment. In each case the authors describe how elite Americans exercised their political and social power to structure the lives and deaths of weaker members of their communities. An impassioned afterword urges class historians to take up the legacies of historical materialism. Engaging the difficulties and range of meanings of class, the essays in Class Matters seek to energize the study of social relations in the Atlantic world.
War Words Language History And The Disciplining Of English
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Author : Urszula Clark
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-01
War Words Language History And The Disciplining Of English written by Urszula Clark and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Debates about the nature of literacy and literacy practices have been conducted extensively in the last fifteen years or so. The fact that both previous and current British governments have effectively suppressed any real debate makes the publication of this book both timely and important. Here, Urszula Clark stresses the underlying ideological character of such debates and shows that they have deep historical roots. She also makes the point that issues regarding the relationship between language and identity, especially national identity, become sharply focused at times of crisis in that identity. By undertaking a comparison with other major English-speaking countries, most notably Australia, New Zealand and the USA, Clark shows how these times of crisis reverberate around the globe.
Ncert History Class 12
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Author : Dr. Brajesh Kumar Srivastava
language : en
Publisher: SBPD Publications
Release Date : 2025-03-07
Ncert History Class 12 written by Dr. Brajesh Kumar Srivastava and has been published by SBPD Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-07 with Architecture categories.
Section A : Archaeology & Ancient India 1. The Story of the First Cities : Harappan Archaeology 2. Political and Economic History from the Mauryan to the Gupta Period 3. Social History : With Special Reference to Mahabharata 4. History of Ancient Indian Religions with Special Reference to Buddhism and Sanchi Stupa. Section-B : Medieval India 5. The Ain-I-Akbari : Agrarian Relations 6. The Mughal Court : Reconstructing History through Chronicles 7. Architecture of Hampi (Vijaynagara) 8. Religious History : The Bhakti-Sufi Tradition 9. Medieval Society through Foreign Travellers’ Accounts. Section-C : Modern India 10. Colonialism and Rural Society : Evidence from Official Reports 11. ‘1857’ A Review 12. Colonial Cities-Urbanisation, Planning and Architecture 13. Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Eyes and His Role in the Indian Politics 14. Partition of India and Its Study through Oral Sources 15. Making of the Indian Constitution. Appendix 1. Chronology of Important Events in Indian History 2. Major Dynasties and Associated Kings of Indian History 3. Sacraments and Symbols 4. Foreign Travellers in India 5. Ancient and Medieval Texts 6. Major Wars/Battles of Indian History and their Consequences 7. British Governors, Governor Generals and Viceroys of India 8. Famous Slogans and Related Personalities of the Indian National Movement 9. Famous Hindi Newspapers of Modern India, Year of Inception, Their Founder and Place 10. Major Political, Social and Nationalist Organizations of Modern India 11. India’s Leading Leaders and their Titles/Surnames 12. Congress Sessions, President and Important Facts 13. Revolutionary Event under the Freedom Movement. Competency Focused Questions Board Examination Papers
Historical Class Book
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Author : William Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1833
Historical Class Book written by William Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1833 with Greece categories.
The Emergence Of Standard English
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Author : John H. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-11-21
The Emergence Of Standard English written by John H. Fisher and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces. In these essays Fisher chronicles his gradual realization that Standard English was not a popular evolution at all but was the direct result of political decisions made by the Lancastrian administrations of Henry IV and Henry V. To achieve standardization and acceptance of the vernacular, these kings turned to their Chancery scribes, who were responsible for writing and copying legal and royal documents. Chaucer, a relative of the king, began to be labeled by the government as a master of the language, and it was Henry V who inspired the fifteenth-century tradition of citing Chaucer as the "maker" of English. An even more important link between language development and government practice is the fact that Chaucer himself composed in the English of the Chancery scribes. Fisher discusses the development of Chancery practices, royal involvement in promoting use of the vernacular, Chaucer's use of English, Caxton's use of Chancery Standard, and the nineteenth-century phenomenon of a standard, or "received," pronunciation of English. This engaging and clearly written work will change the way scholars understand the development of English and think about the intentional shaping of our language.
The Middling Sort Of People
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Author : Jonathan Barry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1994-10-26
The Middling Sort Of People written by Jonathan Barry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-26 with History categories.
This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.
Sociolinguistics And Language History
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Author : Terttu Nevalainen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-27
Sociolinguistics And Language History written by Terttu Nevalainen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.