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,
“... Among various worries I have about the degree subject English, the most serious is the decline (to near vanishing point in many universities) of historical language study. One accepts, of course, that there is an awful lot else to claim the attention of teachers and taught; that the literature of the past two hundred years alone is more than enough challenge for the three short years of undergraduate life ... ”
