Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language - Couverture souple

Bailey, Richard W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472082426 ISBN 13 : 9780472082421

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 1993

Synopsis

Images of English demonstrates how people's opinions about the English language often reflect prejudice and hope, bigotry and pride, scorn and celebration. The book offers a fascinating perspective on attitudes toward the English language--the rise and fall of ideas that English is nearly perfect or tumbling into decline.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively on opinions about the language as they have evolved through time. Through the use of abundant quotations, Richard Bailey lets voices from the past speak to our present assumptions and challenges the notion of English triumphalism throughout the world and the ages. The book offers a unique historical perspective on attitudes towards the language. We see that journalists who fill anxious columns on slow news-days with fulminations on linguistic deterioration are embellishing centuries of complaint; that women who campaign for a language free of patriarchy and suited to themselves express a yearning first conveyed long ago; that teachers who recommend the vigour of Anglo-Saxon words are sustaining an idea that emerged four hundred years ago in notions about racial purity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472082426
• ISBN 13: 9780472082421
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible