English Language For Beginners

This is an open, easy to understand and funny book that allows Ben Graham's fine drawings to complement the intelligent text. Traces the development of English over time and distance, explores language acquisition, and profiles gender and power in language. Lowe and Graham give accurate and detailed information on the theories of how the English Language developed stemming from the ancestral roots of pre-literate societies to Greek, Latin, Old English to the modern vernacular. Simply written, the authors theron look into language and society and how it affects the minds of the people, in particular race and sex. Lowe and Graham do investigate whether the language does indeed repress minorities, leaving, for the most part, for the reader to decide if this is true or not.