Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English

ISBN-13: 9780199232123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 312 str.

Tim Machan

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This is an excellent book. The subject matter is extremely interesting, the book is well-written, and the arguments are carefully crafted.

O autorze

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).