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What is English? : and Why should we care? /
What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers, Tim Machan explores the language's present and past and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The consequences of definition
- The river of English
- Part 2. English by the books
- Words in the shape of English
- When words die
- Space and time
- The genius of our tongue
- Part 3. English in action
- English for the English
- Beyond Britain
- English in the South Seas
- English in the classroom, I : American Indian boarding schools
- English in the classroom, II : industrial English
- The English-speaking peoples
- Part 4. Beyond English
- Defining moments.