Talking Proper

The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

AvLynda Mugglestone

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labour. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-02-20
Mått:162 x 241 x 25 mm
Vikt:661 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:364
Upplaga:2
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199250615

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Mer om författaren

Lynda Mugglestone is News International Lecturer in Language and Communication, University of Oxford and Fellow in English Language and Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford.

Recensioner i media

What Talking Proper does very well is to trace the process by which spoken Engish came to incorporate the view that a particular way of pronouncing it was superior to any other and should be recognised as the phonetic standard.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. The Rise of a Standard ; 2. Accent as Social Symbol ; 3. The Practice of Prescription ; 4. /h/ and Other Symbols of the Social Divide ; 5. Ladylike Accents and the Feminine Proprieties of Speech ; 6. Literature and the Literate Speaker ; 7. Educating Accents ; 8. The Rise (and Fall ?) of RP ; Index