History of English by Culpeper, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…1. birth of English: clues in placenames -- 2. Investigating change in English -- 3. Spellings and speech sounds -- 4. …”

English Language description, variation and context

Table of Contents: “…The history of English spelling.- 13. Phonological change.- 14. Lexical change.- 15. Semantic change.- 16. …”

Introducing english language a resource book for students by Mullany, Louise, Stockwell, Peter

Table of Contents: “…A Introduction: key basic concepts; 1 Phonetics and phonology; 2 Morphology and lexicology; 3 Semantics and pragmatics; 4 Grammatical parts; 5 Text and discourse; 6 Early language acquisition; 7 Psycholinguistics; 8 Origins of English; 9 Sociolinguistics; 10 World Englishes; 11 Stylistics; 12 Methodological paradigms; 13 Language theories; B Development: aspects of English; 1 Consonants and vowels; 2 Lexical semantics; 3 Pragmatic principles; 4 Syntax; 5 Conversation; 6 Literacy; 7 Schemas and worlds. 8 Standardisation and language change9 Language attitudes; 10 Codification; 11 Stylistic analysis; 12 Techniques and ethics; 13 Language and thought; C Exploration: investigating English language; 1 Performing accents; 2 Word plays; 3 Doing politeness; 4 Syntactic effects; 5 Texts in action; 6 Learning to read; 7 Exploring the mind; 8 Corrections; 9 Identify yourself; 10 Influencing language; 11 Exploring literature; 12 Collecting data; 13 Theory into practice; D Extension: linguistic readings; 1 Articulating masculinity (Kiesling); 2 The search for units of meaning (Sinclair). 3 The speech acts of the in-group (Cutting)4 Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire); 5 Advertising discourse (Cook); 6 Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs and Schieffelin); 7 Promoting perception (Field); 8 Lexical change (Smith); 9 Social relationships and social practices (Milroy and Gordon); 10 The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick); 11 Speech and thought as point of view (Simpson); 12 Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research (Dörnyei); 13 Researching 'real' language (Carter and Sealey)…”