{"product_id":"9781851246656-william-tyndale-the-english-language","title":"William Tyndale and the English Language","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a pioneering exploration of Tyndale's enormous impact on the development of the English language. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Crystal celebrates the 500th anniversary of the publication of William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament of the Bible in 1526. His book is a pioneering exploration of the impact Tyndale's writing had on the development of the English language, as well as a stylistic analysis of his prose style, demonstratying its character as a novel genre of 'written speech'. Using the files of the \u003cem\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, in the first half of the book he brings to light the remarkable number of cases where Tyndae is the first recorded user of a word or phrase in English, and provides a thematic classification of their range. He draws attention to the hitherto unrecognised role of Tyndale as an early lexicographer. The second half of the book is a linguistic detective story, devising an innovative lexical and grammatical metric to investigate the often-stated claim that 80 percent of later biblical translations display Tyndale's influence. The book is written for the general reader, with selective examples of usage presented in a friendly narrative style, and supplemented by a series of detailed appendices providing the Tyndale specialist with a comprehensive lexical description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57409010958710,"sku":"9781851246656","price":28.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40257985.jpg?v=1773233948","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781851246656-william-tyndale-the-english-language","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}