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Richard Weld Bailey was born on October 26, 1939 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Son of Karl Deanor and Elisabeth Phelps (Weld) Bailey.
( Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Wo...)
Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in which English changed over the course of the nineteenth century. In Nineteenth-Century English, Richard W. Bailey treads new ground by showing the extent to which the language changed as cultural and economic transformations brought us into the modern world. Six aspects of nineteenth-century English are treated in separate chapters: writing, sounds, words, slang, grammar, and "voices." In each domain, innovation and obsolescence are discussed as they were observed by contemporary writers. Thus Bailey shows how linguistic details gained powerful social meaning in the emergent stratification by class, region, race, and gender of the anglophone community. At the beginning of the century, the "Italian" sound of a in dance was thought to be an intolerable vulgarity; by the end, it was a sign of the highest refinement. At the beginning, OK had yet to be invented; by the end, it was being used in nearly all varieties of English and had appeared as a loanword in many languages touched by English. At the beginning, mixed forms of English--pidgins and creoles--were little known and thoroughly despised; by the end some of them had become vehicles for Bible translation. As English became a global language, it took on the local color of its surroundings, and proper usage became ever more important as an index of social worth, as a measure of intelligence, and as a gauge to a person's suitability for employment, often resulting in painful consequences. What the language was like changed dramatically. What people thought about the language changed even more. "The tale that Bailey has to tell . . . is little short of enthralling. Drawing on previously neglected material--novels, magazines, letters and diaries--he shows how the language came into the century a Georgian popinjay and left it a sober-suited man of business, purged of quirks and flashy curiosities. Along the way, Bailey uncovers a language which, while it seems familiar enough on the printed page of a Jane Austen novel, was actually quite different from the English we use today. . . ." --Robert McCrum, Observer (London) Language changes as time goes by. Modern listeners can barely comprehend Old and Middle English. Although we are able to understand nineteenth-century English, the language changed with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, bilingualism, and growing literacy. In this book, Richard Bailey uses numerous examples and illustrations to demonstrate the changes in English. Furthermore, he identifies the connections between social events and linguistic transformation. ". . . a highly engaging study of a broad and difficult subject. Bailey is an excellent writer--the chapters are well-organized and written in a vigorous style that is buoyed by a wry sense of humor. . . ." --Lexicographia ". . . entertaining, lucid, packed with detail, and refreshingly alert to the arresting quotation. If it is unusual to associate pleasurable reading with the scholarly analysis of language, Bailey also makes clear the serious philological and political implications of his study." -- Times Literary Supplement Richard Bailey is Professor of English, University of Michigan, and is known internationally as an expert on social and regional varieties of English.
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( This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed...)
This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-be philologist Edward Rulloff, who was condemned to die and hanged for his crimes. The life of Rulloff is a sordid account of misguided genius and abysmal consequences. Those who loved him courted disaster, and, in every case, the courtship flowered into catastrophe. Richard Bailey's narrative, calm and impartial yet spiked with wit and suspense, captures perfectly the slightly haunted and overwrought air of Victorian rural America, calling on newspaper accounts, interviews, and eyewitness reports of the day. Inevitably, the quiet accumulation of details builds to a story that transcends its individual events to touch on the universal themes of any age. Rogue Scholar is about the evil of one man who lived a life of deception and crime. Yet in a larger sense it is also the portrait of a condemned soul in its final hours, an examination of the death penalty, and a reminder that media sensationalism is nothing new.
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( A collection of essays by one of the premier historians...)
A collection of essays by one of the premier historians of American English, Milestones in the History of English in America is a remarkable introduction to Allen Walker Read’s work and the ways in which archival materials can illuminate linguistic history. This volume is divided into four sections: the emergence of American English as a distinct form and the attitudes of both Britons and Americans toward its development; the history of the most distinctive and widespread American coinage, "O.K."; euphemism and obscenity; and an autobiographical section that provides a fascinating portrait of a remarkable American scholar.
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( This valuable resource offers an alternative framework ...)
This valuable resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media, their peer, school, family, romance, community, workplace, and virtual worlds. You will find numerous examples of middle and high school students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama) to study, represent, critique, and transform these worlds. Rather than simply studying about literacy practices, this new framework shows how students learn best through active participation driven by a need to critically examine and promote changes in their social worlds.
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(Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively...)
Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively on opinions about the language as they have evolved through time. Through the use of abundant quotations, Richard Bailey lets voices from the past speak to our present assumptions and challenges the notion of English triumphalism throughout the world and the ages. The book offers a unique historical perspective on attitudes towards the language. We see that journalists who fill anxious columns on slow news-days with fulminations on linguistic deterioration are embellishing centuries of complaint; that women who campaign for a language free of patriarchy and suited to themselves express a yearning first conveyed long ago; that teachers who recommend the vigour of Anglo-Saxon words are sustaining an idea that emerged four hundred years ago in notions about racial purity.
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(English Stylistics: A Bibliography is designed to aid stu...)
English Stylistics: A Bibliography is designed to aid students and teachers of linguistics and literature who wish to effect a rapprochement between these two disciplines. It surveys existing theories of style, methods of style analysis, and particular applications of theories and methods to individual authors or literary works. Enphasizing a linguistic approach to the study of style, the entries exhaust all studies that take a grammatical approach to the text (focusing on syntax, rhythm, meter, other sound structures) and that employ a linguistic theory in discussing style analysis. The bibliography concentrates on English stylistics, including all relevant literature from 1500 to the present. A section on history gives the major rhetorics, grammars, and treatises on style and language from the classical Greek period through the nineteenth century. The entries are designed to be of maximum descriptive use. Extensive annotations indicate the content of each article and the assumptions and attitudes brought to the article by its author. Methodology is described where relevant and reviews of books are given. This work answers a great need for a detailed bibliography of studies in English and general stylistics. It is scholarly and comprehensive, a reference of lasting value to linguists and to students and teachers of English literature. It will be of especial interest to those concerned with historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, and the application of linguistic techniquest to the study of literature. Specialists in style, metrics, translation, stylostatistics, and literary theory will find it an invaluable research tool.
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( This valuable resource offers an alternative framework ...)
This valuable resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media, their peer, school, family, romance, community, workplace, and virtual worlds. You will find numerous examples of middle and high school students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama) to study, represent, critique, and transform these worlds. Rather than simply studying about literacy practices, this new framework shows how students learn best through active participation driven by a need to critically examine and promote changes in their social worlds.
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(When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other ...)
When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today. Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England's vanishing working-class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous 'mass' US-influenced culture. His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media.
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(When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other ...)
When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today. Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England's vanishing working-class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous 'mass' US-influenced culture. His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media.
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The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning from the classroom to the real world, including special needs students, adult literacy students, corrections students, ESL learners, and high school students in life skills classes. Each title contains 24 easy-to-read lessons and includes teaching suggestions, fascinating facts, word lists, reviews, Internet resources, and LEP suggestions. Topics in Things to Know about Community Resources include: Community Issues, Government Structure, Citizen Responsibility, State Schools, Court System, Job Resources, Emergency Services, City Hall Resources, Counseling, Self-help, Arts and Sports, Social Security, Living Resources, Money-making Resources, Natural Resources,and Community Play Resources.
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(The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning...)
The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning from the classroom to the real world, including special needs students, adult literacy students, corrections students, ESL learners, and high school students in life skills classes. Each title contains 24 easy-to-read lessons and includes teaching suggestions, fascinating facts, word lists, reviews, Internet resources, and LEP suggestions. Topics in Things to Know about Community Resources include: Community Issues, Government Structure, Citizen Responsibility, State Schools, Court System, Job Resources, Emergency Services, City Hall Resources, Counseling, Self-help, Arts and Sports, Social Security, Living Resources, Money-making Resources, Natural Resources,and Community Play Resources.
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The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning from the classroom to the real world, including special needs students, adult literacy students, corrections students, ESL learners, and high school students in life skills classes. Each title contains 24 easy-to-read lessons and includes teaching suggestions, fascinating facts, word lists, reviews, Internet resources, and LEP suggestions. Topics in Things to Know About Housing include: Special Housing, Shared Housing, Looking for Housing, Using Ads, Renting an Apartment, Start-up Costs, Continuing Costs, Furnishing a Home, Rent-to-Own Furnishings, Roommates, Safe Housing, Housing Maintenance, Using Agents, Paying for Housing, Buying a House, Phones/Phoning, Major Building Projects, and Rights to Safe, Quiet, Private Housing.
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( This volume represents the first attempt to catalogue t...)
This volume represents the first attempt to catalogue the many hundreds of individuals and firms that comprised the English gun trade during the flintlock and percussion eras. Incorporating the experinece and research of a great many students of this fascinating field over forty years, it has been compiled from a systematic examination of national, regional, county and city documentary sources, and has involved the careful examination of many thousands of guns, consultations with collectors and museum curators, as well as discussions with local historians in order to arrive at a clearer and more accurate understanding of the English gun trade. The lists of gunmakers, gunsmiths, barrel makers, gun lock makers, stockers and gun warehouses are presented in three sections. The first deals with the Birmingham gun trade from its beginnings at the close of the seventeenth century to 1900, and, where possible, includes birth or death dates and relevant firearms patents. The second section lists provincial makers by the towns in which they worked, so that the size of the gun trade in any one town, its possible concentration in one area, and its rise and decline may easily be seen. The third section is an alphabetical listing of the provincial makers for ready reference, and contains the town and county of operation and the dates when the man is known to have been working. Appendices include a tabulation of the distribution of gunmakers by county and town and an extensive bibliography of published and unpublished books, periodicals and directories. As a basic reference source of information on English gunmakers, this book represents a very considerable step forward: collectors will find it of inestimable value in dating weapons, and students of Englsih firearms will be enabled to form a clearer and more accurate picture of a very complex and highly skilled trade.
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The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning from the classroom to the real world, including special needs students, adult literacy students, corrections students, ESL learners, and high school students in life skills classes. Each title contains 24 easy-to-read lessons and includes teaching suggestions, fascinating facts, word lists, reviews, Internet resources, and LEP suggestions. Topics in Things to Know About Medicine and Health include: The Whole Person, Taking Charge, Approaches to Health Care, Balanced Health Care, Diet and Exercise, Healthy and Unhealthy Habits, Finding Good Doctors, Getting Dental Care, Health Care to Avoid, Public Health Clinics, Medicines, The Medicine Cabinet, The Emergency Room, Common Colds, Emotional Problems, Hospitals, Skin Care, Challenges That Don't Go Away, Health and Babies, Health and Children, Health and Youths, Health and Adults, Health and the Elderly and Learning More About Health.
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(To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of ...)
To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, that epitomised the spirit of the new age. In recent years urban historians and geographers have produced a wide range of detailed studies, both of particular cities and of specific aspects of nineteenth-century urban society, including the housing system, local government, public transport, class structure, residential segregation and social and geographical mobility. Dr Dennis offers a critical review of this research, integrated with his own original study of mobility, social interaction and community in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield.
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Throughout the world Pinocchio is acknowledged as a rich tale about growing up and self-discovery, an exciting adventure for young children, and a chance to reflect, recall, and understand for adults. In addition to providing the most complete list of English language Pinnochio editions thus far compiled, each of the more than 850 entries in this catalogue is fully described, distinguishing first editions from later releases. Compiled by means of actual copies, all citations state the source of the copy described. Each entry consists of full bibliographic credits, identification of the version, physical description of the volume, occasional other notes, and then traces the edition (when a reprint or reissue) back to its original source. A synopsis is added for Pinocchio continuations. Entries being listed by year of release, this carefully constructed reference is designed for ready access by date, publisher index, name index, and synoptic table. In addition to other information they provide, the notes on publishers are particularly useful for interpreting printing marks, identifying changes in cover, title page, etc., and establishing various series dates and prices. This unique and comprehensive catalogue examines many previously unrecorded editions and sorts out whole assemblies of apparently similar volumes in a completely accessible format. Limiting Disney versions to 1939-40, the catalogue also includes plays, films, radio program, TV shows, and other renditions. It will be an immensely useful resource for book dealers, libraries, and collectors of children's literature.
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(Good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some page c...)
Good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some page corner bumps. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and creases.
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Richard Weld Bailey was born on October 26, 1939 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Son of Karl Deanor and Elisabeth Phelps (Weld) Bailey.
Student, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1960. AB, Dartmouth College, 1961. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1963.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Connecticut, 1965.
From assistant Professor of English to associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965-1976;professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1976. Delegate American Council of Learned Societies, since 1996.
(When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other ...)
(When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other ...)
(When did English become American? What distinctive qualit...)
2012( A collection of essays by one of the premier historians...)
(The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning...)
(The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning...)
(The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning...)
(The Life Skills Literacy series helps those transitioning...)
( This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed...)
( Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Wo...)
( Throughout the world Pinocchio is acknowledged as a ric...)
( This volume represents the first attempt to catalogue t...)
(English Stylistics: A Bibliography is designed to aid stu...)
(Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively...)
( This valuable resource offers an alternative framework ...)
( This valuable resource offers an alternative framework ...)
(To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of ...)
(Good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some page c...)
Author: A London Provisioners' Chronicle, 1550-1563, Images of English, 1991, Nineteenth-Century English, 1996. Rogue Scholar: the Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff, 2003. Editor: (with others) English Stylistics, 1968, Milestones in the History of English in America, 2002.Computing in the Humanities, 1982. Michigan Early Modern English Materials, 1975. English as a World Language, 1982, Literacy for Life, 1983, Dictionaries of English, 1987.
Trustee Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, since 1974, chair, 1985-1995, 99-2001. Delegate platform committee National Democratic Convention, 1976. Senior warden St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, 1981-1982, guild of scholars, New York, since 1997, president, 2001-2006.
Fellow Dictionary Society North America (executive committee 1992-1995, vice president 1999-2001, president 2001-2003). Member American Council Learned Society (delegate 1996-2002) Michigan Linguistic Society (president 1975-1976), Commission on English Language, National Council Teacher of English, American Dialect Society (executive council 1980-1984, vice president 1985-1987, president 1987-1988), Association Computing in the Humanities (vice president 1980-1983), Flounders Club (Ann Arbor). The Athenaeum (London).
Married Margaret Louise Bowman, 1960 (divorced 1976). Children– Eleanor Bowman (deceased), Charles Andrew Stuart. Married Julia Ruth Huttar, 1990.
1 child, Oceana Yi Huttar.