Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of EnglishOUP Oxford, 29 янв. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 312 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 about language has sometimes allowed us to avoid the issues we really find disturbing: when speakers of English worry over grammar, sounds, or words the real source of their anxiety is often not language at all but issues like immigration or social instability. Drawing on an array of evidence from archives, literature, history, polemics, and the press, as well as centuries of legislation, Tim Machan uncovers the perennial nature of concerns about the poverty and purity of English. There has never been a time, he shows, when we weren't worried about the corruption of language and its apparent connections with educational standards, the morality of youth, the integrity of society, and the identity of our nations. This is a fascinating story, told here in consummate fashion, combining insight and anecdote, and learning with wit - a book for everyone interested in languages and the people who speak them. |
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Conflict and Change in the History of English Tim William Machan. 1. Language ... English language. Was it true, the woman inquired, that I was a specialist in ... varieties of speech at any one time, thereby suggesting that all people from ...
Conflict and Change in the History of English Tim William Machan. 1. Language ... English language. Was it true, the woman inquired, that I was a specialist in ... varieties of speech at any one time, thereby suggesting that all people from ...
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... language variation—the existence of grammatical differences (in lexicon, syntax, phon- ology, and morphology) among contemporaneous varieties of a language, such as modern southern British English and modern southern United States English ...
... language variation—the existence of grammatical differences (in lexicon, syntax, phon- ology, and morphology) among contemporaneous varieties of a language, such as modern southern British English and modern southern United States English ...
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... varieties ; the relations between the speech of individuals and the aggregate language they use ; and the impact of context , including language planning , on usage . Perhaps not surprisingly , this abundance of linguistic features in ...
... varieties ; the relations between the speech of individuals and the aggregate language they use ; and the impact of context , including language planning , on usage . Perhaps not surprisingly , this abundance of linguistic features in ...
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... variety, as has been alleged in the Great Vowel Shift, can indeed figure significantly in change, as can the social desire to stigmatize or ameliorate a particular word. The noun Miss, for instance, has become marked in many varieties ...
... variety, as has been alleged in the Great Vowel Shift, can indeed figure significantly in change, as can the social desire to stigmatize or ameliorate a particular word. The noun Miss, for instance, has become marked in many varieties ...
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... variety of the language'16 and has been documented in Philadelphia, New York City, Belfast, and other urban environments, where the covert prestige of a non- standard variety may influence speakers to preserve it at the expense of an ...
... variety of the language'16 and has been documented in Philadelphia, New York City, Belfast, and other urban environments, where the covert prestige of a non- standard variety may influence speakers to preserve it at the expense of an ...
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2 A Moveable Speech | 27 |
3 Narratives of Change | 81 |
4 Policy and Politics | 130 |
5 Say the Right Thing | 186 |
6 Fixing English | 238 |
Works Cited | 267 |
Index | 289 |
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