{"product_id":"introducing-the-history-of-the-english-language-9781032129693","title":"Introducing the History of the English Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language originated, developed, changed, and continues to morph into new forms in contemporary society. \u003cem\u003eIntroducing the History of the English Language\u003c\/em\u003e first offers a rigorous, approachable introduction to the building blocks of language itself and then traces English language usage's messy development in society, beginning with its origins in the Indo-European language family and continuing chronologically through the Old, Middle, Modern, and present-day forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeth Lerer deftly tells this story not as a tale of standards and authority but of differences and diversity. He draws on public and private literary sources from different regions and those in different social classes, highlighting sources from women and people of color - and introduces readers to the effects of technology on English, and the politics of dialect and racial, gender, regional, and class identity across these periods. Further, this text extensively addresses the rich diversity of English varieties, with innovative, focused chapters dedicated to American English, African American English, Global English, and Virtual English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRequiring no prior knowledge of language history or linguistics, offering an array of supplemental activities as online support material, and taking a socially motivated approach to pedagogy that seeks to generate productive reflection and discussion about language difference and politics, this book enables and encourages the twenty-first century student in the United States to see their own language use as deeply implicated in power dynamics and social relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Lerer\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, where he has also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His publications include \u003ci\u003eChaucer and His Readers\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eError and the Academic Self\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eInventing English\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, 2015), \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Lyric Stage\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). He has published creative non-fiction in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and in his memoir, \u003ci\u003eProspero's Son\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916077502738,"sku":"9781032129693","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_36ecd28b-7531-4760-b1d2-0507d1542495.jpg?v=1738837651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/introducing-the-history-of-the-english-language-9781032129693","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}