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"Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labour."--Jacket.
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Accents and accentuation, English language, Social aspects, Social aspects of English language, Social classes, Social life and customs, Speech and social status, Spoken English, Standardization, Variation, Great britain, social life and customs, English language, standardization, English language, spoken english, English language, social aspects, English language, accents and accentuation, English language, variation, Language and culture, Oral communication, Linguistics, Anglais (Langue), Anglais parlé, Langage et statut social, Mœurs et coutumes, Classes sociales, Manners and customs, Aussprache, Sozialstatus, Engels, Dialecten, Standaardtaal, Sociale status, HistoryPlaces
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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent As Social Symbol
2010, Oxford University Press
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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent As Social Symbol
November 19, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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Talking proper: the rise of accent as social symbol
2003, Oxford University Press
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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent As Social Symbol
2003, Ebsco Publishing
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"Talking Proper": The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
May 15, 1997, Oxford University Press, USA
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Talking proper: the rise of accent as social symbol
1995, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-346) and index.
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Pronunciation in Britain acts as an image of identity laden with social and cultural sensitivities. In 'Talking Proper' Lynda Mugglestone studies the shifts in attitudes to language (and in language itself) which, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, came to influence the rise of many still current shibboleths of English speech, whether in terms of the 'dropped h' or the stated improprieties of the 'vulgar' as against the 'educated' speaker.
Showing how changing notions of acceptability were widely reflected in contemporary works of literature as well as those on language, the author examines the role which accent came to play in popular stereotypes of speaker as well as speech; the 'Cockney', the 'parvenu', the 'educated' or the 'lower class', the 'lady' and the 'gentleman' all make their appearance in the language attributes of the day, their social resonances regularly deployed in prescriptive attempts to standardize the spoken language.
The resulting notions about talking proper were firmly embedded in common nineteenth-century assumptions about gender, status, and education, laying the foundations for the Received Pronunciation of today and its distinctive socio-symbolic values.
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