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Language Anxiety - Conflict and Change in the History of English (Hardcover)
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Language Anxiety - Conflict and Change in the History of English (Hardcover)
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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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