The History of the English Language: A Source Book

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Longman, 1992 - Foreign Language Study - 373 pages
The overall structure of the book sustains the view of the development of the language through successive historical periods towards the present-day standard. The collection of texts emphasizes the stylistic and dialectal variety of English, acknowledging this as important to linguistic change. Among the topics which might arise from this collection are the relationship between dialect speech and the standard at various periods, its social implications, the influence upon English of foreign languages, the occurrence of colloquial expression in writing or the characteristics of Latin-based prose.

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Alfreds Preface to the Pastoral Care
17
Cædmon
27
A Homily of Ælfric
37
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