02727nam 2200625Ia 450 991045415760332120200520144314.01-281-93073-397866119307380-19-155248-8(CKB)1000000000707259(EBL)415479(OCoLC)476242653(SSID)ssj0000188913(PQKBManifestationID)11171978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188913(PQKBWorkID)10156168(PQKB)10423586(MiAaPQ)EBC415479(Au-PeEL)EBL415479(CaPaEBR)ebr10273226(CaONFJC)MIL193073(EXLCZ)99100000000070725920090331d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage anxiety[electronic resource] conflict and change in the history of English /Tim William MachanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923212-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) index.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; IndexThis 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 aEnglish languagePsychological aspectsEnglish languageVariationLinguistic changeGreat BritainSociolinguisticsGreat BritainElectronic books.English languagePsychological aspects.English languageVariation.Linguistic changeSociolinguistics306.440941Machan Tim William132276MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454157603321Language anxiety782147UNINA