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A History of English Words

Paperback
Published : Thursday 16 December 1999
ISBN : 9780631188551
Price : €52.59


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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.



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