Download or read book The Story of English Speech Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Charles Noble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of English Speech, Vol. 1 His book is an attempt to put into a small volume the material wanted for my Freshman English work in the History of the Language. What has been done in this field so well by Lounsbury, Emerson, Bradley, Sweet and others, is appre ciated, and there is no thought, particularly, of improving upon their work. What I wanted was something like their books, but briefer, combined with an outline of the more important forms of the West Saxon and the Middle English grammar, and a number of short selections which should show the development of the language, like Cor son's handbook, but much less extended. I have tried also, to emphasize as well as I could, the close relation be tween language development, literary conditions, and social and political movements. This is, to me, far the most interesting phase of the subject, and the one that is most likely to awaken a vital interest in the student and correlate the work in language with other studies. To acknowledge my indebtedness to other writers would be simply to name, in addition to those already referred to, every thing on the general subject upon which I have been able to lay hands. To Professor Ansley, of the State University of Iowa, Professor Robinson, of Harvard Uni versity, and Dr. Craigie, of the New English Diction ary, Oxford, I am indebted for kindly reading and criti cising the manuscript at different stages of its growth. Probably, in spite of the care that has been taken, many mistakes will appear; and if any, outside of my classes, read the book I shall be very grateful for their criticisms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Good English Oral and Written Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by William H. Elson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Good English Oral and Written, Vol. 1 This book is intended for use in the third and fourth years of the elementary school. The authors believe that children speak and write for the same reason that adults do - to tell something that is in their minds, something related to their own experiences, some thing that has a note of personal interest or preference or Opinion. Therefore, the material on which conversation and written exercises are based has been selected with refer ence to its living interest to children and its vital relation to their experiences. This material, moreover, has had thorough test in the classroom. It is now generally agreed that children learn to speak and write interestingly and effectively by speaking and writing under proper inspiration and guidance. Something to say and someone to say it to - an interesting subject and an interested audience - are prime requisites for growth of language power. In this, moreover, oral speech holds first claim on the atten tion of the school, because we speak more than we write. Throughout this text the authors have held clearly in mind these fundamental principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of English Speech written by Charles Noble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of English Speech, Vol. 1 Language is the expression of life, whether for the individual, the nation or the race; and the constant aim of this study of the subject will be to show this living relation of language to the life of nations and of peoples. It is, indeed, implied in the somewhat poetical terms and phrases used by philologists to describe the interrelations of the various forms of speech; so that they speak of "families" of languages, "sister" tongues and dialects, the "mother" tongue and so on, making quite the impression of a family party. Languages are said to grow, to develop, to decay, to die; to have certain tendencies and characteristics; to show signs of a spirit of one sort or another; the life idea thus pervading the usual treatment of the subject. The special purpose of this introductory chapter is to show the relation of the English language to the other families, branches and divisions, limiting our study to those which have had some vital and significant relation to its origin and growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of the English Language Classic Reprint written by Oliver Farrar Emerson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the English Language My indebtedness to various books and studies will be readily perceived from the authors quoted or referred to in the foot-notes. The latter will also direct further study in connection with subjects mentioned in the text. In acknowledging suggestions and assistance from various friends, I desire to mention especially Professor Herbert Eveleth Greene of Johns Hopkins University, who has kindly read the book as it was passing through the press. My thanks are also due to Mr. William Strunk, Jr., and Mr. Wilbur C. Abbott, who have assisted in proof-reading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Essentials of English Speech and Literature written by Frank H. Vizetelly and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essentials of English Speech and Literature: An Outline of the Origin and Growth of the Language, With Chapters on the Influence of the Bible, the Value of the Dictionary, and the Use of the Grammar in the Study of the English Tongue To acquire a knowledge of the essentials of English speech and literature is an accomplishment which should commend itself to all who speak the English tongue. From the point of view of this book, these essentials are indicated by the following questions: (1) How did the language come into being? (2) Who was responsible for its origin? (3) What changes have taken place in its orthographical development? (4) To whom is this development due? (5) Through what media has it been attained? (6) What were the refining influences that have brought it through its crude original forms to the plastic medium for expressing thought which we have to-day? To present these essentials in concrete form is the purpose of this book, which records the chief facts concerning the historical and ethnological development of the language, and which shows, by illustrative examples from different periods, the progress made therein. Therefore, the aim has been: (1) To trace the evolution of English speech. (2) To describe the development and growth of English literature. (3) To direct attention to mutations in English orthography and syntax. To this end the following pages combine the history of the English language with that of English literature to the time of Milton, whose orthographic and syntactical forms approximate closely to our own. It tells, in brief, the story of the language from the dawn of civilization in Britain practically to our time, so that the reader may be said to have before him a conspectus of the different stages of assimilation through which it has passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Outline of English Speech Craft Classic Reprint written by William Barnes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Outline of English Speech-Craft This little book was not written to win prize or praise but it is put forth as one small trial, weak though it may be, towards the upholding of our own strong old Anglo Saxon speech, and the ready teaching of it to purely English minds by their own tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of the English Language Classic Reprint written by T. R. Lounsbury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the English Language As regards the subject of nomenclature, I have seen no reason to alter essentially that which was employed in the previous editions. On one point in particular, action has not been taken unadvisedly. I have exam ined with care everything accessible on the subject, and, I think, nearly everything that has been published, and the more I have read, the less I have been im pressed with the force of the arguments against the use of the term anglo-saxon. I have therefore te tained it in this work, as furnishing what is all-impor tant in nomenclature, a term which, once understood, can never be misunderstood. It is very noticeable that those who are most violently opposed to its use, not unfrequently resort to it when they wish to define with absolute precision what they mean when they apply the term Old English to a particular period in the history of the language. There are, indeed, advantages and disadvantages connected with any terminology that may be adopted. It is certainly an argument in favor of the designation as Old English of what is here called anglo-saxon, that it makes promi nent the continuity of our speech. It is an objection to it that, besides the inevitable ambiguity of the epi thet old, ' it suggests wrong ideas as to the nature of that continuity. Still it would be folly to attach impor tance to this particular subject. It is only those who magnify matters of minor consequence that will con sider the question as one of much moment. I have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oral English Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Clara Beverley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oral English, Vol. 1 Men and women of genius have been thinking and writing on educational subjects for centuries. If all the truths which they have given to the world were embodied in practice the making of books might very well cease for a while. But theory runs far ahead of practice. Teachers are continually on the lookout for practical suggestion. It is only as they actually deal with the minds of children that they realize the truth of generalizations in fact, each must arrive at general truths for himself before they become vital and a real guide to practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Words and Their Ways in English Speech Classic Reprint written by James Bradstreet Greenough and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Words and Their Ways in English Speech The practical man, who rides in electric cars, talks by the long-distance telephone, and dictates his letters to a stenographer, seldom has time to think that he is the heir of all the ages. Yet, however busy he may be, there are moments when the amazing phenomenon of articulate speech comes home to him as a kind of commonplace miracle. To answer some of the questions that occur to one at such moments is the main purpose of this book. Chapters XIII and XIV are an essential part of the treatment, but have been so adjusted that the reader who finds them abstruse may skip them without scruple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Elements of English Speech Classic Reprint written by Isaac Bassett Choate and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of English Speech These notes were mostly made some time ago, and for a very different use but, thinking they may prove suggestive to the reader, I have collected them into this little volume, and publish them, even at the risk of being regarded another such snapper-up of unconsidered trifles as Autolycus proclaims himself in the Winter's Tale of Shakespeare. They are accompanied by so much of comment and theory as the subject in hand seems to call for to bring into clear view its difficulties, but with no attempt to treat any one topic in an exhaustive manner. The book is not designed for a text-book, nor is it intended to supplement text-books. The object of its publica tion will be fully accomplished if it encourages any reader to study our language critically in its forms and elements, if it suggests methods of investigation likely to prove useful in solving the many problems peculiar to English, if it exhibits anything of the fresh ness, the life, and the vigor of a still growing idiom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Origin and History of the English Language written by George P. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin and History of the English Language: And of the Early Literature It Embodies The Lectures which form the basis of the present volume were delivered at the Lowell Institute, in Boston, in the United States, in the autumn and winter of 1860-1861. They were prepared in the preceding summer, with such aids only as my private library afforded, and my departure for Europe in the spring of the latter year has prevented me from giving them so complete a revision as I had hoped to bestow upon them. I have, however, made such additions and other improvements as the time and means at my command would permit, and, having been invited to publish the Lectures first in England, I have endeavoured to remove from them whatever might seem designed exclusively for the American public, and have adapted them, as far as I was able, to the common wants of all who desire to study the literary history of the English tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Writing and Rhetoric Book 1 Fable written by Fable Stu Ed and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writing & Rhetoric series method employs fluent reading, careful listening, models for imitation, and progressive steps. It assumes that students learn the best by reading excellent, whole-story examples of litereature and by growing their skills through imitatiion. Each excercise is intended to impart a skill (or tool) that can be employed in all kids of writing and speaking. The excercises are arranged from simple to more complex. What's more, the exercises are cumulative, meaning that later exercises incorporate the skills acquired preceding exercises. This series is a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. Fable, the first book in the Writing & Rhetoric series, teaches students the practice of close reading and comprehension, summarizing a story aloud and in writing, and amplification of a story through description and dialogue. Students learn how to identify different kinds of stories; determine the beginning, middle, and end of stories; recognize point of view; and see analogous situations, among other essential tools. The Writing & Rhetoric series recovers a proven method of teaching writing, using fables to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well.
Download or read book The English Language written by Walter Humboldt Low and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English Language: Its History and Structure For this edition the type of the book has been reset, the whole having undergone thorough revision at the hands of Mr. A. J. Wyatt and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Good Speech written by Walter Ripman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Good Speech: An Introduction to English Phonetics The recent report of Sir Henry Newbolt's Committee on "The Teaching of English in England" contains, among much that is of pressing importance, an earnest plea for the cultivation of good speech, and it insists on the value of phonetics for attaining this end. It is satisfactory to know that this report has had an extensive sale; and among its readers there are probably many who have little idea of what "phonetics" means and how it can help them. They may be a little frightened at the technicalities with which many treatises on phonetics abound, and the script usually employed may seem to them a more formidable difficulty than it really is. A simple presentment of the principal features of our spoken language, based mainly on standard speech, but paying some attention to dialect sounds, will probably be welcome to many teachers and perhaps even to a wider public. The attempt has been made in the following pages to provide a popular introduction to what will prove an interesting field of study in which many more workers are needed. To speak clearly and well is a social duty; and it is more particularly the duty of the teacher. This book, from its very nature, can do no more than set the student on the right path; it is in no sense exhaustive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Outlines of the History of the English Language Classic Reprint written by E. Classen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of the History of the English Language If the sole function of language is the communication of thought it follows that every development of thought will produce also a development of language. What we require of language is, therefore, no small thing. We require of it that it shall give expression to every human activity, high and low, good and bad; that it shall render all human knowledge, human emotion, human faith and human ambitions; for the creative impulse in man will never rest until it has found its appropriate expression in words or deeds. We expect of language, therefore, that it shall give expression to every possible development of human thought, and the history of the literature in any particular language is the most convincing proof possible that language rises to the occasion and satisfies those demands. It is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
