Everything about The Stories Of English totally explained
The Stories of English is a
2004 book by
British linguist David Crystal; it traces the history of the
English language from the invasion of
Great Britain by the
Angles and
Saxons in the
5th Century to the modern splintering of the language into its modern
British,
American,
Indian,
Australian, and other
dialects.
One primary focus of the book is a history of British English, from its
Old English beginnings to
Middle English,
Early Modern English, and
Modern English. Crystal also argues eloquently for the inclusion of dialects and "non-standard" varieties of English. Even for the Old English period, he shows how the available evidence can be used to determine what dialectal variation existed.
Finally, Crystal condemns what he sees as the over-abundance of
linguistic prescription in the study of English, especially that which existed from the
18th Century to the
20th. He speaks approvingly of the recent shift of focus in English language education away from prescriptivism.
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