Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol by Lynda Mugglestone

Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

Lynda Mugglestone

368 pages 1995

3 editions

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Pronunciation in Britain acts as an image of identity laden with social and cultural sensitivities. In "Talking Proper," Mugglestone studies the shifts in attitudes to language (and in language itself) which, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth ...

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