A History of English Words
Geoffrey (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) Hughes
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1999
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This book traces the remarkable reconfigurations that English lexis has undergone in the past millennium. The vocabulary is studied as an indicator of social change, a symbol reflecting different social dynamics between speech communities, on models of dominance, cohabitation, colonialism and globalisation.
- ISBN-13
- 9780631188551
- ISBN-10
- 063118855X
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Year
- 1999
- Publication date
- 1999-12-16
- Pages
- 452
- Dimensions
- 228x155x15
- Weight
- 676