Attitudes to Language
“Attitudes to Language” by Peter Garrett, published by Cambridge University Press on April 8, 2010, is a comprehensive exploration of how language attitudes and ideologies shape our daily interactions. This edition spans 268 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into the ways our communication styles influence perceptions of competence, intelligence, and social status, highlighting the judgments we often make based on language use.
Readers will find a lively introduction to the research surrounding language attitudes, examining the implications for social identity and the potential for discrimination. Garrett discusses various elements of language, including punctuation, grammar, pronunciation, and dialects, illustrating how these factors affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This insightful work invites readers to reflect on the intricate relationship between language and social dynamics.
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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.
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