<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: Still the best!
Review: After decades of use in both undergraduate and graduate classes, Baugh's masterwork is still the best introduction to our language for the serious student (or the discerning teacher). Buy it.
Rating:
Summary: Still the best!
Review: After decades of use in both undergraduate and graduate classes, Baugh's masterwork is still the best introduction to our language for the serious student (or the discerning teacher). Buy it.
Rating:
Summary: A real classic.
Review: I read this book about 25 years ago. It was a textbook for a graduate course, The History of the English language, Of course, I cannot make very specific remarks about something that I read so long ago, but I can state that I enjoyed this book thoroughly. It was complete, well documented, and utterly fascinating! It enabled me to understand so much more about how people speak and think, how language changes, and how it stays the same.
Rating:
Summary: Very Comprehensive Read
Review: I,like another reviewer, read this book over 20 years ago for a college class when I was a major in Linguistics. I was so enthralled with it, that it still graces my library shelves today. The cultural and social impact which brought change and foreign languages into English was just fascinating and very well written. I highly recommend this book.
Rating:
Summary: Very Comprehensive Read
Review: I,like another reviewer, read this book over 20 years ago for a college class when I was a major in Linguistics. I was so enthralled with it, that it still graces my library shelves today. The cultural and social impact which brought change and foreign languages into English was just fascinating and very well written. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Not all that glitters...
Review: Yes, the book is heralded by many. Yes, it is still being used in the Linguistics and English departments of many prominent universities today. However, does that necessarily mean it's all that great???It is highly informative and fairly accurate. However, the book is tainted with linguacentric opinions laced here and there that do not help to educate and enlighten students to the inherent equality of all languages and dialects. A pity! I haven't yet found a perfect text, but perhaps Williams' "Origins of the English Language" (available from Amazon ISBN 0029344700) is a better choice for both students and teachers. It is also significantly less expensive.
<< 1 >>
| 
