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An enquiry into the use and status of English in medieval England, this text is concerned with English relative to French and Latin and its regional and social varieties in relation to each other. It examines medieval views of language and the significance of English and how these shaped its use.

Language and culture --- -English language --- -Germanic languages --- Culture and language --- Culture --- History --- -Dialects --- Tense --- Variation --- -History --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Middle English language --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Middle English, 1100-1500&delete& --- Discourse analysis --- Texts --- England --- To 1500

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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind these choices and the effects they have on our understanding of the English language and its history. Tim Machan explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. He describes how narrative principles are constructed, what kinds of facts and analyses they allow or prevent, and what can be known outside of them. The book's historically and critically wide-ranging arguments center on the themes of social purpose, aesthetics, periodization, and grammatical structure, while the conclusion extends the discussion into the roles of speakers themselves, who have transformed the grammar and pragmatics of English since the colonial period embodied in the Jamestown settlement. English Begins at Jamestown shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to narrate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.

Anglais (langue) --- English language --- Historiographie. --- History. --- Historiography.

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Historical linguistics --- English language --- Sociolinguistics --- Anglais (Langue) --- Sociolinguistique --- Grammar, Historical --- Social aspects --- Grammaire historique --- Aspect social --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Sociological aspects --- Germanic languages --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- SOCIOLINGUISTIQUE --- GRAMMAIRE HISTORIQUE --- ASPECT SOCIAL