Incriminating English
Randolph Quirk, 24 September 1992
Language, Self and Society: A Social History of Language
edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.
Polity, 358 pp., £45, December 1991,0 7456 0765 9 Show More
edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter.
Polity, 358 pp., £45, December 1991,
Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language
by Richard Bailey.
Cambridge, 329 pp., £16.95, March 1992,0 521 41572 1 Show More
by Richard Bailey.
Cambridge, 329 pp., £16.95, March 1992,
The Oxford Companion to the English Language
edited by Tom McArthur and Feri McArthur.
Oxford, 1184 pp., £25, September 1992,9780192141835 Show More
edited by Tom McArthur and Feri McArthur.
Oxford, 1184 pp., £25, September 1992,
The History of the English Language: A Source Book
by David Burnley.
Longman, 373 pp., £25, January 1992,0 582 02522 2 Show More
by David Burnley.
Longman, 373 pp., £25, January 1992,
The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. I: Beginnings to 1066
edited by Richard Hogg and Norman Blake.
Cambridge, 609 pp., £60, August 1992,9780521264747 Show More
edited by Richard Hogg and Norman Blake.
Cambridge, 609 pp., £60, August 1992,
“... vocabulary by Dieter Kastovsky (Vienna), on dialects by Thomas Toon (Ann Arbor), on onomastics by Cecily Clark (Cambridge), and on literary language by Malcolm Godden (Oxford). Volume Two, 1066-1476, is edited by Norman Blake (Sheffield), who in addition to an excellent general introduction contributes the chapter on literary language. Onomastics is ... ”
