Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

by Tim William Machan

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232121
• ISBN13: 9780199232123
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"