TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrett,Peter
TI  - Attitudes to Language
T2  - Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
SN  - 9780511844713 (ebook)
AV  - P120.L34 G37 2010
U1  - 306.44 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language awareness
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence, intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In this lively introduction, Peter Garrett draws upon research carried out over recent decades in order to discuss such attitudes and the implications they have for our use of language, for social advantage or discrimination, and for social identity. Using a range of examples that includes punctuation, words, grammar, pronunciation, accents, dialects and languages, this book explores the intricate and fascinating ways in which language influences our everyday thoughts, feelings and behaviour
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844713
ER  -