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1. English Study
You’re a Wow! Th
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Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. English Study
English Studies is an
academic discipline that
includes the study of:
What is the
literatures written in the English language,
English
English linguistics, and Studies?
.
English sociolinguistics.
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3. English Study
What do
literature from the UK, literatures
the USA, Ireland, written in
Canada, Australia, New the English
Zealand, Hong Kong, the language
Philippines, India, South include?
Africa, and the Middle
East, among other areas.
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4. English Study
Ho w a b o
phonetics, ut
phonology, English
syntax, linguistic
s?
morphology,
semantics,
pragmatics,
corpus
linguistics,
and
stylistics.
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5. English Studiy
… Discourse
analysis of
written and And En
spoken texts,
sociolin glish
the history of guistic
the English s?
language,
English
language
learning and
teaching, and
The study of
World
Englishes
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6. English Study
More broadly, English
studies explores the What does
production and analysis of academic
texts created in English (or departments
in areas of the world in of English
which English is a common include?
mode of communication).
It is not uncommon for
academic departments of
"English" or "English
Studies“.
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7. English Study
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and philol ies,
and variou ogy/etym
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, among
others.
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8. What is English?
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9. History of English language.
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10. History of English language.
How did
They crossed they
the North Sea invade
from what Britain?
today is
Denmark and
northern
Germany (see
the map below)
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11. Germanic invaders entered Britain on the
east and south coasts in the 5th century
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12. History of English language.
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the time?
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13. History of English language.
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land.
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14. Let’s see at the
map!
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15. History of English language.
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16. History of English language.
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Modern ry of
English:
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Modern
English -
Late
Modern Let’s talk
English .
about old Interesting!
English.
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17. Old English (450-1100 AD)
The invading Germanic tribes
languages
spoke similar languages, which in
Britain developed into what we
now call Old English. Old English
did not sound or look like English Oh!
today. Native English speakers
now would have great difficulty
understanding Old English.
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18. Old English (450-1100 AD)
Nevertheless, about half of
the most commonly used
words in Modern English
have Old English roots. The Wonderful!
words be, strong and water,
for example, derive from Old
English. Old English was
spoken until around 1100.
See an example of old
English!
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19. Part of Beowulf, a
poem written in Old
English
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20. Middle English (1100-1500)
In 1066 William the
Conqueror, the Duke of
Normandy (part of modern
France), invaded and
conquered England.
The new conquerors (called
the Normans) brought with
them a kind of French, which
became the language of the
Royal Court, and the ruling
and business classes.
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21. For a period there was a kind of linguistic
class division, where the lower classes
spoke English and the upper classes
spoke French.
In the 14th century English became
dominant in Britain again, but with
many French words added. This
language is called Middle English.
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22. It was the language
of the great poet
Chaucer (1340-1400),
but it would still be
difficult for native
English speakers to
understand today.
An example of Middle English
by Chaucer. Nerio Burga
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23. MODERN ENGLISH
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH (1500-1800)
• From the 16th century the
British had contact with many
people from around the world.
• This, and the Renaissance of
Classical learning, meant that
many new words and phrases
entered the language. The
invention of printing also meant
that there was now a common
language in print.
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24. • Books became cheaper and
more people learned to read.
Printing also brought
standardization to English.
• Spelling and grammar became
fixed, and the dialect of
London, where most
publishing houses were,
became the standard.
• In 1604 the first English
dictionary was published
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25. Late Modern English (1800-
Present)
• The main difference between Early
Modern English and Late Modern English
is vocabulary.
• Late Modern English has many more
words, arising from two principal factors:
• Firstly, the Industrial Revolution and
technology created a need for new words;
• Secondly, the British Empire at its height
covered one quarter of the earth's surface,
and the English language adopted foreign
words from many countries.
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27. • At this time, the vocabulary of Old English
consisted of an Anglo Saxon base with
borrowed words from the Scandinavian
languages (Danish and Norse) and Latin.
Latin gave English words like street,
kitchen, kettle, cup, cheese, wine, angel,
bishop, martyr, candle.
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28. The Vikings added many Norse words: sky, egg,
cake, skin, leg, window (wind, eye), husband,
fellow, skill, anger, flat, odd, ugly, get, give,
take, raise, call, die, they, their, them.
Celtic words also survived mainly in place and
river names (Devon, Dover, Kent, Trent, Severn,
Avon, Thames).
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29. Many pairs of English and Norse words
coexisted giving us two words with the same
or slightly differing meanings. Examples below.
Norse English
• Anger • wrath
• Nay • no
• Fro • from
• ill • sick
• skirt • shirt
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30. In 1066 the Normans conquered Britain.
French became the language of the Norman
aristocracy and added more vocabulary to
English.
FRENCH • ENGLISH
• Close • shut
• Odour • smell
• Annual • yearly
• Chamber • room
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31. Hamlet's famous "To be, or not to
be" lines, written in Early Modern
English by Shakespeare.
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32. Varieties of English
From around 1600, the English colonization of
North America resulted in the creation of a
distinct American variety of English. Some
English pronunciations and words "froze" when
they reached America.
In some ways, American English is more like the
English of Shakespeare than modern British
English is.
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33. Spanish also had an influence on American
English (and subsequently British English), with
words like canyon, ranch, stampede and vigilante
being examples of Spanish words that entered
English through the settlement of the American
West. French words (through Louisiana) and West
African words (through the slave trade) also
influenced American English (and so, to an extent,
British English).
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34. Some expressions that the British call
"Americanisms" are in fact original British
expressions that were preserved in the
colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for
example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb
instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another
example, frame-up, was re-imported into
Britain through Hollywood gangster movies).
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35. Varieties of English
Today, American English is particularly
influential, due to the USA's dominance of
cinema, television, popular music, trade and
technology (including the Internet). But there
are many other varieties of English around the
world, including for example Australian English,
New Zealand English, Canadian English, South
African English, Indian English and Caribbean
English.
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36. The Germanic Family of
Languages
English is a
member of the
Germanic family
of languages.
Germanic is a
branch of the
Indo-European
language family.
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37. A brief chronology of English:
A brief chronology of English.doc
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38. Taken from
www.englishclub.com
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