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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol Book

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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol, Pronunciation in Britain acts as an image of identity laden with social and cultural sensitivities. In Talking Proper, Mugglestone studies the shifts in attitudes to language (and in language itself) which, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth c, Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
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  • Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
  • Written by author Lynda Mugglestone
  • Published by Clarendon Press, 1995/01/05
  • Pronunciation in Britain acts as an image of identity laden with social and cultural sensitivities. In "Talking Proper," Mugglestone studies the shifts in attitudes to language (and in language itself) which, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth c
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List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'A National Obsession' 1
1 The Rise of a Standard 7
2 Accent as Social Symbol 50
3 The Practice of Prescription 77
4 /h/ and Other Symbols of the Social Divide 95
5 Ladylike Accents and the Feminine Proprieties of Speech 135
6 Literature and the Literate Speaker 173
7 Educating Accents 212
8 The Rise (and Fall?) of Received Pronunciation 258
Notes 289
References 328
Index 347


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