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Speaking American : a history of English in the United States /
"When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? Richard Bailey's Speaking American invest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199913404 0199913404 9780199921461 0199921466 1283428156 9781283428156 |