Attitudes to Language
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
ISBN-10
052175917X
ISBN-13
9780521759175
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 8th, 2010
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 13.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Sociolinguistics
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Everyone appears to have an opinion about language, and these attitudes permeate our daily lives. Using a range of examples this lively introduction explores the intricate and fascinating ways in which language influences our everyday thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In this lively introduction, Peter Garrett draws upon research carried out over recent decades in order to discuss such attitudes and the implications they have for our use of language, for social advantage or discrimination, and for social identity. Using a range of examples that includes punctuation, words, grammar, pronunciation, accents, dialects and languages, this book explores the intricate and fascinating ways in which language influences our everyday thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
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