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

• Autore: Machan Tim William
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.440941
• Soggetto topico: English language - Psychological aspects; English language - Variation; Linguistic change - Great Britain; Sociolinguistics - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language anxiety
• ISBN: 1-281-93073-3; 9786611930738; 0-19-155248-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454157603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II