Language Anxiety : Conflict and Change in the History of English.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Machan, Tim William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
Subjects:
English language > Psychological aspects.
English language > Variation.
Linguistic change > Great Britain.
Sociolinguistics > Great Britain.
Anglais (Langue) > Variation.
Changement linguistique > Grande-Bretagne.
Sociolinguistique > Grande-Bretagne.
English language > Psychological aspects
English language > Variation
Linguistic change
Sociolinguistics
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (313 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) index.
ISBN:9780191552489
0191552488
1281930733
9781281930736

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