English begins at Jamestown : narrating the history of a language /

"The history of English is not a ready-made thing - it takes shape only through the critical selection of language forms, usages, and pragmatics and through the deployment of these in narratives. English Begins at Jamestown is the first book to critique the historiography that makes this select...

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Main Author:	Machan, Tim William (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	English language > History. English language > Historiography. English language. History.