The History of Late Modern Englishes : An Activity-based Approach (Hardcover)

1. Into the middle of things 2. ‘Ascertaining English’: the eighteenth century 3. The nineteenth century: English, standard and non-standard 4 A short interlude about variety 5. ‘A tongue of small reach’: England 6. ‘A tongue of small reach’: Wales, Scotland, Ireland 7. ‘Immigrants goes to America’: English in North America 8. A world apart?: Australia and New Zealand 9. Wider still and wider 10. Pidgins, Creoles, and Tok Pisin: a ‘ghastly mutilated English’? 11. Worldwide 12. English: a language with a past . . . and a future? Glossary References Index