دانلود کتاب Inventing English : a portable history of the language

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Finding English, finding us --
Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry --
From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature --
In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English --
From kingdom to realm : Middle English in a French world --
Lord of this langage : Chaucer\'s English --
I is an Ille a Millere as are ye : Middle English dialects --
The great vowel shift and the changing character of English --
Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose --
I do, I will : Shakespeare\'s English --
A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English --
Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English --
A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary --
Horrid, hooting stanzas : lexicography and literature in American English --
Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English --
Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom --
Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact --
Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the \'Oxford English Dictionary\' and its readers --
Listening to Private Ryan : war and language --
He speaks in your voice : everybody\'s English --
Faith in English : vernacular devotion and biblical translation --
The talk and the text --
Appendix. English sounds and their representation.