Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: english, history, oxford
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0199249318
ISBN-13: 9780199249312

This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world’s first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence.With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken English in all its rich and protean variety. T

Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: social, symbol, accent, rise, proper, talking
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-12-20
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199250626
ISBN-13: 9780199250622

Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labor. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.

Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: english, history, oxford
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-12-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0199544395
ISBN-13: 9780199544394

The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its position as the world’s first language. In accounts made vivid with examples from an immense range of documentary evidence, including letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen experts describe the history of English in all its versions, written and spoken. They reveal the language’s rich and protean variety over the centuries and chart the progress of all its versions, standard, regional, and international. With impeccable and approachable scholarship, they describe and explain its c

Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lexicography, studies, lexicology, oxford, untrodden, oed, pioneers, forest
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-04-20
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0198237847
ISBN-13: 9780198237846

The Oxford English Dictionary occupies a special place in the history of English, cultural as well as linguistic. This collection sets out to explore the pioneering endeavors in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of its first edition. Making use of much unpublished archive material, the essays brings a wide variety of perspectives to bear upon the OED, and the particular problems posed by the attempt to break new ground in its formation.

Authors:Lynda La Plante, Lynda LaPlante,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: shoulder, cold
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1996-03-26
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0679441034
ISBN-13: 9780679441038

The author of the Emmy Award-winning TV series Prime Suspect now pens her first thriller. Lorraine Page, a down-on-her-luck ex-cop, finds herself in recovery the hard way, when she winds up on the trail of a serial killer. Film rights sold to Michelle Pfeiffer/Twentieth Century Fox. Film version will star Michelle Pfeiffer as Lorraine Page.

Authors:Lynda Bell,  Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: rights, human, culture, negotiating
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231120818
ISBN-13: 9780231120814

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate," so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing how cultural difference and human rights operate in theory and practice in such areas as legal equality, women’s rights, and ethnicity, the contributors forge a new way of looking at these critical issues. They call their approach "chastened universalism," arguing that respect for others’

Author: Lynda Nead
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: nude, female
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 1992-12-22
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415026784
ISBN-13: 9780415026789

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art’. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status? The Female Nude brings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable ima