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Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has published extensively on historical linguistics, medieval English, and Old Norse, with a particular focus on language contact and change. His most recent books include What Is English? And Why Should We Care? (2013) and Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English (2009).
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Languages, Legends, and American Dreams

Tim William Machan


OUP Oxford

2026-04-05

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Languages, Legends, and American Dreams concerns the development of an American language narrative in the formative years 1750–1850 - from the United States' emergence out of disparate colonies, to its expansion across the North American continent,...

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Télécharger le livre :  English Begins at Jamestown
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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  English Begins at Jamestown
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Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  What is English?
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-08-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Language Anxiety
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This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-01-29

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Télécharger le livre :  English in the Middle Ages
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"Professor Machan explores for the first time fully a new dimension in the understanding of the role of the English language in medieval England. He is rigorous and sceptical in his examination of assumptions that have come to be too easily accepted - about the rise of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2003-06-05

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