History and contemporainety of English 09-HiWJP-11
Students:
1. gain the basic knowledge of:
- what sources provide the knowledge about the languages of the past and today;
- what the English language looked like in the past (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English) and what functions and forms it has today;
2. gain the understanding of:
- how linguistic changes in the history of English were influenced by extralinguistic context (conquests, settlement patterns, socio-political developments, trade, inventions and discoveries, literary traditions, etc.);
- what makes English a unique language in the modern context;
3. gain the skills necessary to:
- find and use resources and tools to access historical and modern English texts (books and handbooks, dictionaries, the Internet);
- read / listen to and understand short passages from original historical texts and modern texts with various provenance (with the help of appropriate tools: glossaries, dictionaries, help from the tutor);
- account for the diversity found in the English language;
Bibliography
Crystal, David. 1997. English as a global language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, David. 2003 (2nd edn). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP.
Crystal, David. 2005. The stories of English. NY: Overlook Press.
Crystal, David. 2006. Language and the internet. Cambridge: CUP.
Fisiak, Jacek. 2000. An outline history of English. vol. 1. External history. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.
Goodman, Sharon - David Graddol. 2003. Redesigning English: New texts, new identities. London: Routledge.
Graddol, David - Dick Leith - Joan Swann. 2002. English: History, diversity and change. London: Routledge.
Horobin, Simon - Jeremy Smith. 2003. An introduction to Middle English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies. Georgetown University. www.labyrinth.georgetown.edu
McArthur, Tom. 1998. The English languages. Cambridge: CUP.
McArthur, Tom. 2003. Oxford guide to World English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Millward, Celia M. 1996. A biography of the English language. Boston: Hartcourt Brace.
Nevalainen, Terttu. 2006. Introduction to Early Modern English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Watts, Richard & Peter Trudgill. 2002. Alternative histories of English. London / New York: Routledge.
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