TY - BOOK AU - Crystal,David TI - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language SN - 052182348X (pbk) PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge, UK PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English language KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Encyclopaedias KW - Language & linguistics N1 - Previous ed.: 1997; Includes appendices, glossary, references and indexes; 1. Modelling English; PART 1: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH; 2. The origins of English; 3. Old English ; Early borrowings -- Runes -- The Old English corpus -- Literary texts -- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- Spelling -- Sounds -- Grammar -- Vocabulary -- Late borrowings -- Dialects ; 4. Middle English ; French and English ; The transition from Old English ; The Middle English corpus ; Literary texts ; Chaucer ; Spelling ; Sounds ; Grammar ; Vocabulary ; Latin borrowings ; Dialects ; Middle Scots ; The origins of Standard English; 5. Early Modern English ; Caxton ; Transitional Texts ; Renaissance English ; The inkhorn controversy ; Shakespeare ; The King James Bible ; Spelling and regularization ; Punctuation ; Sounds ; Grammar ; Vocabulary ; The Academy debate ; Johnson; 6. Modern English ; Transition ; Grammatical trends ; Prescriptivism ; American English ; Breaking the rules ; Variety awareness ; Scientific language ; Literary voices ; Dickens ; Recent trends; 7. World English ; The New World ; American dialects ; Canada ; Black English Vernacular ; Australia ; New Zealand ; South Africa ; South Asia ; West Africa ; East Africa ; South-East Asia and the South Pacific ; A world language ; Numbers of speakers ; Standard English ; The future of English ; English threatened and as threat; Part II : ENGLISH VOCABULARY; 8. The nature of the lexicon ; Lexemes ; The size of the English lexicon ; Abbreviations ; Proper names ; The size of a person's lexicon; 9. The sources of the lexicon ; Native vocabulary ; Foreign borrowings ; Word-formation ; Unusual structures ; Lexical creation ; Literary neologism; 10. Etymology ; Lexical history ; Semantic change ; Folk etymology ; Place names ; Surnames ; First names ; Nicknames ; Nicknames ; Object names ; Eponyms; 11. The structure of the lexicon ; Semantic structure ; Semantic fields ; Dictionary and thesaurus ; Collocations ; Lexical predictability ; Idioms ; Synonyms ; Antonyms ; Hyponyms ; Incompatibility ; Other sense relations; 12. Lexical dimensions ; Loaded vocabulary ; Taboo ; Swearing ; Jargon ; Doublespeak ; Political correctness ; Catch phrases ; Vogue words ; Slogans ; Graffiti ; Slang ; Quotations ; Proverbs ; Archaisms ; Clichés; Last words; Part III : ENGLISH GRAMMAR; 13. Grammatical mythology ; The nature of grammar ; Knowing vs knowing about ; Traditional grammar ; Prescriptive grammar ; The 20th-century legacy ; The main branches of grammar; 14. The structure of words ; Morphology ; Suffixation ; Adjectives ; Nouns ; The apostrophe ; Pronouns ; Verbs; 15. Word classes ; Parts of speech ; Traditional definitions ; New classes ; Nouns ; Pronouns ; Adjectives ; Adverbs ; Verbs ; Prepositions ; Conjunctions ; Interjections; 16. The structure of sentences ; Spoken and written syntax ; Types of sentence ; Sentence structure ; Sentence functions ; Clause elements and types ; Phrases ; Noun phrases ; Verb phrases ; Multiple sentences ; Abbreviations ; Disjuncts and comment clauses ; Reporting speech ; Sentence information ; Beyond the sentence; Part IV : SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH; 17. The sound system ; Phonetics and phonology ; Vocal organs ; Vowels ; Consonants ; Syllables ; Connected speech ; Prosody ; Sound symbolism ; Pronunciation in practice; 18. The writing system ; Graphetics and graphology ; Typography ; The alphabet ; Properties of letters ; Letter frequency ; Letter distribution ; Letter symbolism ; Analysing handwriting ; Grapethic variety ; Spelling ; Sources of irregularity ; Spelling reform ; Punctuation ; The development of the writing system; Part V: USING ENGLISH; 19. Varieties of discourse ; Structure vs. use ; Pragmatic issues ; The nature of discourse ; Microlinguistic studies ; Texts and varieties ; Speech vs. writing ; Mixed medium ; Monologue and dialogue; 20. Regional variation ; Accent and dialect -- International and intranational -- Prescriptive attitudes -- Gender -- Occupation -- Religion -- Science -- Law -- Journalism -- Broadcasting -- Weather forecasting -- Sports commentary -- Advertising -- Restricted varieties -- New fashions -- New technologies ; 22. Personal variation ; Individual differences -- Deviance -- Word games -- Rule-breaking varieties -- The edges of language -- Jokes and puns -- Comic alphabets -- Variety humour -- Literary freedom -- Phonetics and phonology -- Graphetics and graphology -- Grammar and lexicon -- Discourse and variety -- Stylometry ; 23. Electronic variation ; Netspeak and its properties -- Lexical distinctivness -- Graphetic distinctivness -- Graphological distinctivness -- Grammatical distinctivness -- Discourse distinctivness ; Part VI: LEARNING ABOUT ENGLISH; 24. Learning English as a mother tongue ; Child language acquisition -- Literacy -- Grammatical development -- Early words and sounds -- Reading and writing -- Insufficient language -- Language disability ; 25. New ways of studying English ; Technological revolution -- Corpus studies -- National and international corpora -- Dictionaries -- Innovations -- Sources and resources ; Appendices ; I Glossary ; II Special symbols and abbreviations ; III References ; IV Further reading ; V Index of linguistic items ; VI Index of authors and personalities; VII Index of topics N2 - "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language matters, generating further publications and broadcasting events for an avid audience. Its First Edition appeared in hardback in 1995 and a revised paperback in 1997. There have been numerous subsequent updated reprintings: but this Second Edition now presents an overhaul of the subject for a new generation of language-lovers and of teachers, students and professional English-users concerned with their own linguistic legacy. The book offers a unique experience of the English language, exploring its past, present and future. David Crystal systematically explains the history, structure, variety and range of uses of English worldwide, employing a rich apparatus of text, pictures, tables, maps and graphics. The length of the Second Edition has increased by 16 pages and there are 44 new illustrations, a new chapter, extensive new material on world English and Internet English, and a complete updating of statistics, further reading suggestions and other references throughout the book." 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