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.
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Lynda Mugglestone's glorious book Talking Proper...gives us a closely researched history of the English accent as a badge of identity * Ian McMillan, The Times *
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-19-925062-2 (9780199250622)
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Lynda Mugglestone is News International Lecturer in Language and Communication, University of Oxford and Fellow in English Language and Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford.
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, University of Oxford
Introduction: 'A National Obsession' ; 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 Received Pronunciation ; Notes ; Reference ; Index
