Joan Beal: 2 books
by Charles Barber, Joan Beal, Philip Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English...
by Joan C Beal
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. This is the first undergraduate text to cover the whole of this important period,...