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The English Language: Volume 2, Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters, 18581964Author(s): W. F. Bolton, D. Crystal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521095457, 978-0521095457\nSynopsis\nA collection of statements by literary men and others about the nature and use of the language, its resources, potentialities and development. Volume I covered the period [tel]. Volume II starts in 1858 and runs to the 1960s and therefore records the rise first of philology, then of modern linguistic study. Accordingly this volume contains a number of excerpts from the writings of great European and American language-scholars (Sweet, Sapir and Bloomfield among others) as well as by important writers. The volume provides a readable and often entertaining introduction to thought about English, and language generally, during the period and also illustrates the overall development of attitudes. The editors provide .