{"product_id":"english-begins-at-jamestown-narrating-the-history-of-a-language-hardcover","title":"English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim William Machan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAny 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnglish Begins at Jamestown\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eEnglish Begins at Jamestown\u003c\/em\u003e shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to narrate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim William Machan, \u003cem\u003eMary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim William Machan is Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on historical linguistics, multilingualism, reception, and textual criticism, and on medieval English, Norse, and French literature. His previous books with OUP include \u003cem\u003eLanguage Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) and \u003cem\u003eWhat Is English? And Why Should We Care?\u003c\/em\u003e (2013; paperback 2016).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52622629110067,"sku":"9780198846369","price":75.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bmRaUTNGSzN2VjMyMmlNNTZock53UT09.webp?v=1761973033","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/english-begins-at-jamestown-narrating-the-history-of-a-language-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}