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Publication details [#52943]

Machan, Tim William. 2009. Language Anxiety. Conflict and Change in the History of English. OUP-USA. 312 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

Drawing on a broad range of evidence from history, literature, archives, polemics, the press, and centuries of legislation, this book reveals the perennial nature of concerns regarding the poverty and purity of English, and discusses how these language change related anxieties often reflect other than linguistic concerns such as e.g. immigration or social instability issues.