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  • PROPER ENGLISH
    TONY CROWLEY
    First published in 1991. Debates about the state and status of the English language are rarely debates about language alone. Closely linked to the question, what is proper English? is another, more significant social question: who are the proper English? The texts in this book have been selected to illustrate the process by which particular forms of English usage are erected an...

    $1,480.00

  • LANGUAGE IN HISTORY
    DR TONY CROWLEY / TONY CROWLEY
    In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourg...

    $1,420.00

  • THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN IRELAND 1366-1922
    TONY CROWLEY
    For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference. Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the c...

    $1,420.00