Words in Time and Place

Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

Autor*innen

• David Crystal

Parameter

• 320 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Handbücher und Anleitungen
• Historisches Thema
• Linguistik
• Sachbücher
• Über Bücher

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How has the English language developed over time? How have words entered the English language, or changed their meaning? David Crystal takes us on a wonderful tour through the origins and evolution of 15 groups of words, from dying to spacecraft. His source is the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Einband: Hardcover