1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009646030403321

Titolo

X profilo dei laureati italiani : nel cantiere delle riforme universitarie / a cura di Consorzio Interuniversitario AlmaLaurea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna : Il Mulino, 2009

ISBN

978-88-15-13086-0

Descrizione fisica

301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

378.20945

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XXXI Varie 392

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454157603321

Autore

Machan Tim William

Titolo

Language anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : conflict and change in the history of English / / Tim William Machan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-281-93073-3

9786611930738

0-19-155248-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

306.440941

Soggetti

English language - Psychological aspects

English language - Variation

Linguistic change - Great Britain

Sociolinguistics - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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