1: “VIEWS OF LANGUAGE IN THE 19TH CENTURY” • Historical linguistics in the 19th and 12th centuries held views on language that were based on a long tradition going back to the Greeks. “COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE” Linguistics dealt with the sound system, the system of forms and their order and the lexicon of languages with …
1. THE TEMPER OF THE 18TH CENTURY: THE FIRST HALF OF 18TH CENTURY KNOWN as an Augustan age. 18th century is commonly designated in histories of literature as the Augustan age. Augustan age was the “age of sensibility” People wanted to get knowledge and got benefits from it .people of that era were become more …
The history of English language a cultural subject He was the remarkable chronicler of twelfth century. He was Henry of Huntington who observed that the interest in the past was a very outstanding quality of a man as compared to the other animals. When the cultivated man and woman is conscious about his deficiencies of …
(1200-1500) I. Changing Conditions after 1200 The linguistic situation described in the previous chapter did not continue because the conditions under which it arose changed. Shortly after 1200 England lost an important part of its possessions in Europe. The English nobility gradually relinquished their estates in the continent. Rivalry developed between England and France, accompanied …