ISBN10: 0897894685, ISBN13: 9780897894685, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

Praeger 1996 Softcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. New. Swiderski extends our understanding of the "predatory" aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires and is transformed by the other languages with which it comes into contact. Examples begin with major languages, especially Spanish and Chinese, and then look at less obvious connections. ISBN 0897894685 9780897894685 [GB]

Praeger, Date: 1996-05-23. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 143 p., 25 cm. 1996. Praeger ISBN 0897894685 9780897894685 [US]

Praeger 1996-05-23 Hardcover Like New Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 143 p., 25 cm.

Westport, CT Praeger 1996 Hard cover New. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p.

Praeger Pub Text, Date: 1996. Hardcover. New. 143 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. 1996. Praeger Pub Text ISBN 0897894685 9780897894685 [GB]

ISBN10: 0897894685, ISBN13: 9780897894685, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Like New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0897894685, ISBN13: 9780897894685, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. Beginning with the motley crew of invaders who mingled with the Gaelic, Norse, Latin and French speakers to produce a small nation of empire-builders who would carry their language to the far corners of the globe, the story of the birth and migration of the English language is well known to us through the popular works of Robert McNeil, Robert McCrum and Bill Bryson. Swiderski expands and extends our understanding of the "predatory" aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires and is transformed by the myriad other languages with which it comes into contact. Swiderski's examples begin with major world languages, especially Spanish and Chinese, and then go on to look at the less considered connections with remote and extinct languages. Through Swiderski's lens, English takes on the look of an agglutinative museum of linguistic artifacts in danger of having no describable identity or common fabric. Each speaker's variety of English is as individual as his or her genetic makeup; it is both so universal and so dissimilar that "English" as we know it may be endangered as a separate language. Swiderski extends our understanding of the "predatory" aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires and is transformed by the other languages with which it comes into contact. Examples begin with major ...
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ISBN10: 0897894685, ISBN13: 9780897894685, [publisher: Bloomsbury Academic] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0897894685, ISBN13: 9780897894685, [publisher: Praeger 1996-05] Hardcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]

Westport, CT Praeger 1996 Hard cover New. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p.