ABBREVIATED FACULTY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR
PAPER 1: THE HISTORY, USE AND THEORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Section A

TOPICS

There will be 4 Section A tutorials and classes. These will be fortnightly.
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SECTION A
* indicates titles that are particularly accessible while !! indicates titles which are complicated
Background Information on Language
* *J. Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. 3rd edn. (London: Routledge, 1989). Early chapters outline some key properties of language, and explain its biological basis.
* *J. Aitchison, The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Early chapters contain a readable account of some puzzling general features of language.
* *J. Aitchison, The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words (Cambridge University Press, 1997). The BBC 1996 Reith lectures, which dealt with worries about language, and why they are often irrelevant. (Publication Dec 1996)
* W.F. Bolton and D. Crystal, ed., The English Language (London: Sphere, 1987)
* R. Harris, The Language Myth (London: Duckworth, 1981)
* *S. Pinker, The Language Instinct (London: Allen Lane, 1994). A wide-ranging, readable introduction written by a psychologist.
* *J. Aitchison, Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge University Press, 1991). A readable introduction to language change, with numerous examples from English.
* *J. Aitchison, Linguistics: An Introduction (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995). Also available under title: Linguistics. 4th edn. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Teach Yourself Books 1992, with updated book list 1995. A brief introduction to the various branches of linguistics.
* *V. Fromkin and R. Rodman, An Introduction to Language, 5th edn. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993). A readable general introduction, helped along by cartoons and quotes.

A.0.3. DICTIONARIES OF LINGUISTIC TERMS

* *D. Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics 4th edn. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
* *L. Trask, A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics (London: Routledge, 1993).

A.0.4. LINGUISTICS: ENCYCLOPAEDIAS/BOOKS OF READINGS

* R.E. Asher (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (Oxford and Aberdeen: Pergamon Press and Aberdeen University Press, 1994). A massive, multi-volume work, well worth consulting.
* *V.P. Clark, P.A. Escholz and A.F. Rosa (eds.), Language: Introductory Readings, 5th edn. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994). A range of readable readings on different topics within linguistics.
* *D. Crystal, The Cambridge encyclopaedia of language (Cambridge University Press, 1987). Written for a general market, but wide-ranging and useful for browsing.

A.0.5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE: REFERENCE

* *D. Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Arranged by topics, and useful both for reading and browsing.
* T. McArthur, The Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford University Press, 1992). Useful for browsing.
* R. Quirk, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J., A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London: Longman, 1985). A large, useful reference book, usable without any knowledge of linguistics.

A.0.6. HISTORIES OF ENGLISH

* *C. Barber, The English Language: A Historical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1993). A short, readable introduction which covers the history of English from its Indo-European origins to the present day, with an emphasis on vocabulary.
* A.C. Baugh and T. Cable, A History of the English Language, 4th edn. (London: Routledge, 1993). A widely used, useful book.
* *R. Burchfield, The English Language (Oxford University Press, 1985). A brief overview which also contains information about grammars and dictionaries.
* D. Burnley, The History of the English Language: A Source Book (London: Longman, 1992)
* M. Gorlach, Introduction to Early Modern English (Cambridge U.P., 1991)
* S.S. Hussey, The English Language: Structure and Development (Longman, 1993). Good recent book, recommended by several tutors.
* D. Leith, A Social History of English (London: Routledge, 1997)
* B. Strang, A History of English (London: Methuen, 1974)

A.1.1 LEXICOLOGY: WORD MEANING AND WORD FORMATION

* V. Adams, An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation (London: Longman, 1973). A non-technical introduction which outlines a range of word formation devices.
* *J. Aitchison, Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994). Readable information on how humans handle words.
* J. Algeo, Fifty Years among the New Words: Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991 (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
* L. Bauer, English Word-Formation (Cambridge University Press, 1983). A useful survey.
* R. Carter, Vocabulary (London, 1986)
* G. Hughes, Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988)
* *G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago University Press, 1980). A slim, but important book on the pervasiveness of metaphor in everyday language.
* S.I. Tucker, Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Vocabulary and Usage (London, 1967)
* R.A. Waldron, Sense and Sense Development (London: Deutsch, 1974)

A.3. VIEWS ON STANDARDIZATION, GRAMMATICALITY AND CORRECTNESS

* *R.W. Bailey, Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Attitudes to the English language by speakers over the centuries, including the current century.
* R. Burchfield, 'The Recording of English in Dictionaries and Grammars' in The English Language Today. ed. S. Greenbaum (Pergamon, 1985), pp. 41-47.
* *D. Cameron, Verbal Hygiene (London: Routledge, 1995). A serious look at the popular `urge to meddle' with language.
* *T. Crowley, The Politics of Discourse: The Standard Language Question in British Cultural Debates (London: Macmillan, 1995). Also published under title: Standard English and the politics of language (Urbana: University of Illinois Press). Outlines the rise of the concept of `the standard language'.
* T. Crowley, ed., Proper English? (London: Routledge, 1991)
* A.D. Hall, 'Tudor Prose Style: English Humanists and the Problem of a Standard', English Literary Renaissance, 7 (1977), pp. 267-96
* J. Honey, The Language Trap: Race, Class and the Standard English Issue in British Schools (London: National Council for Educational Standards, 1983)
* S.A. Leonard, The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage 1700-1800 (Madison, 1929)
* R. Lowth, A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)
* L. Michaels and C. Ricks, eds., The State of the Language (University of California Press, 1980), 1st edn.
* *J. Milroy and L. Milroy, Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and Standardisation, 2nd edn. (London: Routledge, 1991). Its title says it all.
* *W.H. Mittins, M. Salu, M. Edminson and S Coyne, Attitudes to English Usage (Oxford University Press, 1970). A survey of attitudes to 55 often-condemned usages, such as `split infinitives', different to, the data is.
* *L. Mugglestone, Talking Proper (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). A wealth of information on attitudes toward the pronunciation of English.
* L. Mugglestone, 'Prescription, Pronunciation and Issues of Class in the later 18th and 19th Centuries' in Sentences for Alan Ward, ed., D.M. Reeks (Bosphorus, 1988)
* H. Newbolt, The Teaching of English in England (London: H.M.S.O., 1921)
* P. Trudgill, 'Standard English' in Language in the British Isles, ed. P. Trudgill (Cambridge U.P., 1984)
* S. Tucker, English Examined: 1600-1800 (Cambridge, 1961)

A.4.3. DICTIONARIES: LEXICOGRAPHY GENERAL

* C. Brewer, 'Thoughts on the Second Edition of the OED', London Review of Books 31 August, 1989, pp.16-18
* Robert Burchfield:
1. 'The Fowlers and their achievement in Lexicography and Grammar', Presidential Address for the English Association (1979)
2. Essay on 'Dictionaries and Ethnic Sensibilities' in The State of the Language, ed. L. Michaels and C. Ricks
3. Reply to Harris in T.L.S. (see Harris below)
4. Introduction to Supplement vols. of O.E.D.
* R. Burchfield, ed., Studies in Lexicography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
* A. Cowie, 'Language as Words: Lexicography', in N.E. Collinge (ed.), An Encyclopaedia of Language (London: Routledge, 1990). A brief outline of the history, theory and practice of dictionary making.
* R. Harris, The Language Makers (London: Duckworth, 1980)
* R. Harris, T.L.S., 3 September 1982, Review of O.E.D. Supplement - and see correspondence in subsequent issues, particularly Burchfield's reply.
* J.R. Hulbert, Dictionaries, British and American (London, Deutsch, 1968)
* S. Johnson, Plan and Preface to the Dictionary
* G.J. Kolb and J.H. Sled, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: Essays in the Biography of a Book (University of Chicago Press, 1955)
* S. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (Cambridge University Press, 1994). A widely-used, basic book.
* R. de Maria, Johnson's Dictionary (Oxford U.P., 1986)
* K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words (Yale U.P., 1977)
* J.A.H. Murray, The Evolution of English Lexicography (Oxford 1900)
* N. Osselton, Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers (Exeter University Press, 1995). Shows how dictionaries have changed over the centuries, and points out that some problems are perennial.
* J. Schäfer, 'Documentation in the OED', (Oxford U.P., 1980)
* D.T. Starnes and G.E. Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755 (John Benjamins, 1991) new edn.
* B. Svenson, Practical Lexicography: Principles and Methods of Dictionary-Making (Oxford University Press, 1993). An up-to-date survey, which includes a chapter on dictionaries in the electronic age.
 

A.6. SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE USE OF ENGLISH

Social aspects
* D. Cameron, Feminism and Linguistic Theory (London: Macmillan, 1992), 2nd edn.
* D. Cameron, ed., The Feminist Critique of Language (London: Routledge, 1990)
* J. Coates, Women, Men and Language 2nd edn. (London: Longman, 1993). An exceptionally clear account of research on language and sex.
* J. Coates and D. Cameron, eds., Women in their Speech Communities (London: Longman, 1989)
* J. Coates, Women Talk (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
* P.P. Giglioli, ed., Language and Social Context (Penguin, 1972)
* *J. Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (London: Longman, 1992). A clear, matter-of-fact book, with good sections on women's language.
* S. Johnson and U.H. Meinhof, Language and Masculinity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
* W. Labov, Sociolinguistic Patterns (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978)
* *T.W Machan and C.T. Scott (eds.), English in its Social Contexts: Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics (Oxford University Press, 1992).
* L. Milroy, Language and Social Networks, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987). A pioneering study relating language variation to social networks.
* P. Smith, Language, the Sexes and Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985)
* P. Trudgill, Sociolinguistics, 3rd edn. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983). A clear and interestingly written account of language variation.

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

* R.W. Bailey and M. Görlach, English as a World Language (University of Michigan Press, 1982). Brief and readable overview articles of English in different areas.
* R. Burchfield, English in Britain & Overseas. Vol.5. of Cambridge History of the English Language. (Cambridge University Press, 1994). An uneven collection of papers, but some are excellent.
* J. Cheshire, English around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). A mixed bag of articles, but covers the world well.
* A. Hughes and P. Trudgill, English Accents and Dialects, 3rd edn. (London: Arnold, 1996). A slim survey, best used with its useful accompanying tape.
* J. Milroy and L. Milroy (eds.), Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles (London: Longman, 1993). Geographical variation in British English dealt with in a fairly user-friendly fashion.
* P. Trudgill, ed., Language in the British Isles (Cambridge U.P., 1984)
* P. Trudgill and J.K. Chambers, ed., Dialects of English: Studies in Grammatical Variation (London: Longman, 1991)
* M.F. Wakelin, English Dialects: An Introduction (London: Athlone, 1977)
* J.C. Wells, Accents of English (Cambridge U.P., 1982)

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