A History of English provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.

Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrati

The History of English: A Linguistic Introduction is for anyone interested in the history of the English language. While leading the reader through the pre-hist

The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main ten

This volume presents a sociolinguistic perspective on the history of the English language. Based on original empirical research, it discusses the social factors