Language Anxiety - Conflict and Change in the History of English

Zusatztext This is an excellent book. The subject matter is extremely interesting, the book is well-written, and the arguments are carefully crafted. Informationen zum Autor Tim William Machan is Professor of English at Marquette University. He has published extensively on medieval language and literature and has edited texts in Middle English, Old Norse, Latin, and French. His books include Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts (University Press of Virginia, 1994), English in its Social Contexts (edited with C. T. Scott, OUP, 1992), English in the Middle Ages (OUP 2003, paperback edition 2005), Sources of the 'Boece' (Georgia, 2005), and Chaucer's 'Boece' (Carl Winter, 2008). Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tim William Machan, Tim William (Marquette University) Machan, Machan Tim William
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780199232123
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923212-3
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics