Normal view MARC view ISBD view

The Oxford companion to the English language /

By: McArthur, Tom [Editor]Contributor(s): McArthur, TomMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1992Description: xxvii, 1184 p. : ill., mapISBN: 019214183X (alk. paper) :Subject(s): English philology | Language and languagesDDC classification: 420 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online

Contents:

Accents and dialects (American English, Ozspeak, Scouse); key people (Johnson, Chomsky); literature (poetic diction, Joyce); names (Eponym, place-names); style (plain English, sexism); education (reading, TEFL); grammar (parts of speech, modal verbs); usage (doublespeak, Fowler); wordgames (crosswords, Scrabble); jargons (air traffic control English); media (BBC, Websters); technology (QWERTY, hypertext).

Summary: Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 3 )
Comments ( 0 )
Images

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Permanent Reference	Main Library Permanent Reference	Reference	420 OXF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		002455

Total holds: 0

Browsing Main Library shelves, Shelving location: Permanent Reference, Collection: Reference Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous							No cover image available	Next
Previous	418.007 KAR Paradigm Shift in English Language Teaching	418.02 ROU The Routledge handbook of translation studies /	420 DEA Oxford English : Guide To The Language	420 OXF The Oxford companion to the English language /	420 SHA Times English companion	420.9 MIL External influences on English :	423 AME The American College Encyclopedic Dictionary	Next

Includes index.

Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer