Talking Proper

The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925061-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labour. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mugglestone, Lynda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Rise of a Standard

- 2: Accent as Social Symbol

- 3: The Practice of Prescription

- 4: /h/ and Other Symbols of the Social Divide

- 5: Ladylike Accents and the Feminine Proprieties of Speech

- 6: Literature and the Literate Speaker

- 7: Educating Accents

- 8: The Rise (and Fall ?) of RP

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynda Mugglestone is News International Lecturer in Language and Communication, University of Oxford and Fellow in English Language and Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford.