English Begins at Jamestown
Narrating the History of a Language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 September 2022
- ISBN 9780198846369
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 240x165x24 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English 250
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Short description:
English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. It shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to relate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.
MoreLong description:
Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives.
English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind these choices and the effects they have on our understanding of the English language and its history. Tim Machan explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. He describes how narrative principles are constructed, what kinds of facts and analyses they allow or prevent, and what can be known outside of them. The book's historically and critically wide-ranging arguments center on the themes of social purpose, aesthetics, periodization, and grammatical structure, while the conclusion extends the discussion into the roles of speakers themselves, who have transformed the grammar and pragmatics of English since the colonial period embodied in the Jamestown settlement. English Begins at Jamestown shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to narrate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.
Tim Machan's book is a much-needed exploration of the stories that we tell ourselves about the history of the English language. Fascinating, engaging, and original, this work ranges across centuries of the linguistic past, providing important historiographical analysis and inviting us to think in new ways about the field and practices of English language history.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Writing the history of English
Theocratic linguistics
Using English
Families and friends
A grammar of change
When speakers make the difference
References
Index
