Bad language
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Bad language
Basil Blackwell, 1990
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First published 1990 by arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd
"Parts of this book are based on L.G.Anderson's Fult Språk.(Carlssons Bokförlag, Stockholm, 1985)"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography: p. 197-198
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Generations of school teachers have railed bitterly against the bad grammar and slovenly pronunciation of their pupils. Parents have for decades bemoaned the swearing and sloppy diction of their children. Public figures become enraged about jargon and linguistic corruption in the nation's press. Employers deplore the inarticulacy and limited vocabularies of their staff. And everyone knows that spelling and punctuation are not what they were. What is all this complaining about? Why do otherwise sane people become so apoplectic about other people's language? What are the roots of this linuistic prejudice? The authors of this book take a dispassionate look at negative attitudes to language use and try to account for the various types of hostility. They argue that most types of "bad" language have their place, and should be seen as valuable parts of the nation's linguistic repertoire. Linguistic discrimination, they suggest, should be no more acceptable in an enlightened and tolerant society than discrimination on grounds of race or sex. The work is aimed at undergraduates and specialists in English language and linguistics and the general reader.
目次
- Introduction - who gives a damn?
- good or bad?
- attitudes
- swearing
- slang
- sort of meaningless?
- right or wrong?
- bad accents
- change or decay?
- bad language and education
- moral.
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