Introduction to the History of English - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9783631560044

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by Magnus Huber (Other), Thomas Kohnen (Author)

This introduction to the history of English includes chapters on language change, the Indo-European background of English, and on Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English. It offers information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres.

Author Biography

Thomas Kohnen is Professor of English historical linguistics at the University of Cologne. His major fields of study include historical pragmatics and historical text linguistics, corpus linguistics, historical syntax, speech act theory as well as orality and literacy and the language of religion.

Number of Pages: 207

Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.7 IN

Publication Date: March 19, 2014

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