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200 10$aLanguage anxiety$b[electronic resource] $econflict and change in the history of English /$fTim William Machan
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (313 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-923212-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) index.
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aThis 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
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606   $aSociolinguistics$zGreat Britain
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