History of the English Language in Presentation

History of the english language, a detailed presentation

1. The History of the English
Language

2. Research Question
•Why is the English
language the largest
in the world?

3. etymology
• The study of
word origins

4. Text Source #2
•Works Cited
•Beers, Kylene. Holt
Literature and Language
Arts. Austin: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston,
2001.

5. Source #1
•Engel, Elliot. A Light
History of the English
Language. Raleigh:
Media Consultants,
1997

6. The Celts #1
•Celtic language first in Britain.
•Scots, Irish, Welsh descendants of Celtic

7. England

8. England

9. Old English 500-1065 AD
•Anglo Saxon Germanic language

10. Romans: Julius Ceasar
•He spoke Latin; He conquered:
•Romance Languages: French, Spanish,
Italian, Portuguese, Romanian.

11. #1
Old English begins when the
Anglos, Saxons, Jutes invade
England in 500 A.D.
•Old English is an Anglo-Saxon
Germanic language

12. Then the Vikings Invade! #1
•Vikings from Scandinavia
invade England in 793AD
•They speak Old Norse
•O.E.
•(The Light History of English)
•Light History.

13. Beowulf- Epic Poem #1
•First work of English literature

14. Source 1
•Almost every one syllable
word we speak is from
Anglo Saxon German
•Old English 500-1065AD

15. Middle English 1066-1550AD
•In 1066, William the Conqueror
from Normandy, France invades
England.

16. The Norman Conquest

17. England becomes bilingual during
Middle English
•English: ox, sheep, swine, calf
•French: beef, mutton, pork, veal
•The rich and upper class
spoke French Latin, but the
lower class spoke Anglo-
Saxon German.

18. Chaucer was a 14
th
century author
of The Canterbury Tales M.E.
•Decided dialect to used as
national language
•Frame story. Prologue:
meeting @ Tabbard Inn, all
taking pilgrimage (religious
journey) to Canterbury,
arranging story competition,
and describing people from
diff. walks of life
•Then individual stories from
traveling pilgrims
•Then back to the Tabbard

19. Caxton brings the
Printing Press to England in 1476

20. Modern English is 1500 to present
#1
•Renaissance-rebirth of
Greek and Roman art

21. William Shakespeare
•Used 21,500 different words
•3,000 invented words

22. Shakespeare invented:
•Words Shakespeare Invented
•Academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse
assassination backing bandit bedroom beached besmirch
birthplace blanket bloodstained barefaced blushing betbump buzzer
caked cater champion circumstantial
•Coldblooded compromise courtship countless critic dauntless dawn
deafening discontent dishearten drugged dwindle epileptic equivocal
elbow excitementexposure eyeballfashionablefixtureflawedfrugal
generousgloomygossipgreen-eyedgusthinthobnobhurriedimpede
impartialinvulnerablejadedlabellacklusterlaughablelonelylower
luggagelustrousmadcapmajesticmarketablemetamorphizemimic
monumentalmoonbeammountaineernegotiatenoiselessobscene
obsequiouslyodeolympianoutbreakpanderspedantpremeditated
pukingradiancerantremorselesssavageryscufflesecureskim milk
submergesummitswaggertorturetranquil
undressunrealvariedvaultingworthlesszanygnarledgrovel

23. King James Bible 1604

24. 1755 Johnson’s Dictionary

26. Good
•Good, gode, guod, guode, goode, goed,
gowd, godd, guid guide, gud, gwde, guyd,
gewd
•7 years in the making. This dictionary
helped standardize spelling.

27. France

29. Text Source #2
•Works Cited
•Beers, Kylene. Holt
Literature and Language
Arts. Austin: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston,
2001.