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Language anxiety : conflict and change in the history of English / Tim William Machan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machan, Tim William, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics--Great Britain.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Linguistic change--Great Britain.
- Linguistic change.
- English language--Variation.
- English language.
- English language--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 302 p.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03659-4
- 1-281-93073-3
- 9786611930738
- 0-19-155248-8
- OCLC:
- 476242653
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