English One Tongue, Many Voices
'If you read only one book on the English language-read this one. English - One Tongue, Many Voices covers all aspects of the English language: its global spread, international and local varieties, history from obscurity to primacy, usage and uses, standa
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English One Tongue, Many Voices
Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech
English – One Tongue, Many Voices tells its story with the help of maps, diagrams and pictures. The text is interspersed with panels focusing on particular topics of interest, and is followed by notes that give the sources of information, as well as detailed references and indexes. A book for students and their teachers, and for anyone who wants a broad and authoritative introduction to the phenomenon of English worldwide. Jan Svartvik, the distinguished Scandinavian scholar of English language, is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is co-author of Engelsk universitetsgrammatik (with Olof Sager, 1977) and Handbok i engelska (with Rikard Svartvik, 2001), and author, co-author or editor of some 35 books and 75 papers or articles on varied aspects of English linguistics, contrastive grammar and nautical terminology. He is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Academia Europaea. Geoffrey Leech has recently retired as Research Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Author, co-author, or co-editor of 25 books and 100 papers or articles on varied aspects of linguistics and the English language, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of Academia Europaea. He is co-author with Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad of English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction, now in its second edition. Together with Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech co-authored the ‘Quirk grammars’: A Grammar of Contemporary English (1972) and A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985). They are co-authors of A Communicative Grammar of English, which went into its third edition in 2002.
10.1057/9780230596160 - English - One Tongue, Many Voices, Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech
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Two internationally distinguished English language scholars tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. They trace the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago as a collection of dialects spoken by marauding, illiterate tribes. They show how the geographical spread of the language in its increasing diversity has made English into an international language of unprecedented range and variety. They look at the present state of English as a global language and the problems, pressures and uncertainties of its future. Th
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