Attitudes to Language

Name: Attitudes to Language
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521759175
Price: 7750 KES
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ISBN: 9780521759175

by Peter Garrett

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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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