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

Lynda Mugglestone

"Talking Proper": The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

Lynda Mugglestone

368 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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

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