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What is Language Anxiety : Conflict and Change in the History of English about?

This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety about language has sometimes allowed us to avoid the issues we really find disturbing: when speakers of English worry over grammar, sounds, or words the real source of their anxi

Who reads Language Anxiety : Conflict and Change in the History of English?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Tim William Machan
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780199232123
Category
language
Subjects
Linguistics, Historical Fiction, Sociology
Updated
2026-03-24

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