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Language anxiety : conflict and change in the history of English / Tim William Machan

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

Online-Ressource (x, 302 p)

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgements; On the Use of Phonetic Symbols; 1 Language, Change, and Response; 2 A Moveable Speech; 3 Narratives of Change; 4 Policy and Politics; 5 Say the Right Thing; 6 Fixing English; Works Cited; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) index

Print version: Language Anxiety : Conflict and Change in the History of English

0-19-923212-1 (hbk.); 978-0-19-923212-3 ( : hbk.)

978-0-19-923212-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

PE1075

306.440941     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Sociolinguistics -- Great Britain ; English language -- Psychological aspects ; Linguistic change -- Great Britain ; English language -- Variation

English language ; Psychological aspects ; English language ; Variation ; Linguistic change ; Great Britain ; Sociolinguistics ; Great Britain ; Electronic books

This engaging and wide-ranging history of language anxiety ranges from the Tower of Babel to the internet. It shows how worry about language results from and causes linguistic change, as well as fuelling perennial concerns about class, culture, identity, and social change. - ;This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety a