Language Myths
The media are ruining English; Some languages are harder than others; Children can't speak or write properly anymore. Such pieces of cultural wisdom are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development. In this book Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill have invited nineteen respected linguists from all over the world to address these language myths -- showing that they vary from the misconceived to the downright wrong. With essays ranging from Women Talk Too Much and In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare to Italian Is Beautiful, German Is…
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Weitere Autoren: Bauer, Laurie (Hrsg.) / Trudgill, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-026023-6
- EAN: 9780140260236
- Produktnummer: 9292912
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.4 cm 155 g
- Abbildungen: illustrations
- Gewicht: 155
Über den Autor
Peter Trudgill and Laurie Bauer are both respected linguists. Trudgill has written many books for Penguin (including Sociolinguistics which has sold 130,000 copies since it was first published in 1974). Other contributors include Jean Aitchison (Professor of Language at Oxford), Lars Gunnar-Andersson (co-author of Bad Language with Trudgill) and Janet Holmes (Women, Men and Politeness, 1995, Longman). Peter Trudgill lives in Lausanne (and sometimes Norwich.) Laurie Bauer lives in New Zealand.
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