Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 An outine history
1.2 Language and social change
1.3 Language,evolution and progress
1.4 Language and myth
1.5 Language supriority
2 The origins of the English Language
2.1 The lingguistic geography of Europe
2.2 Language in Britanin
2.3 Early English
2.4 The Survival of Celtic
2.5 The British people
3 English and Danish
3.1 Old English and Old Norse
3.2 Norse immigration
3.3 The Anglo-saxon written tradition
3.4 English in the Danelaw
3.5 Norse influence on English
4 English and French
4.1 England and France
4.2 Literacy in the medieval period
4.3 The reemergence of English
4.4 English under french influence
4.5 Printing
5 English and latin
5.1 The Lollards
5.2 Classical scholarship
5.3 Scholarly writing in English
5.4 The English bilble
5.5 The legacy of Latin
6 The Language of England
7 The language of revolution
8 The Language of learnde and polite persons
9 The language of Great Britain
10 The Language of empire
11 Conclusion
Appendix:Further suggestions
Bibliography
Index
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