27.1126, Books: Behind the Words: Mallinson

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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:00:51
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Behind the Words: Mallinson

 Title: Behind the Words 
Subtitle: The FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/behind-the-words 


Author: William Mallinson

Paperback: ISBN: 1443888087 9781443888080 Pages: 148 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN: 1443888087 9781443888080 Pages: 148 Price: U.S. $ 50.95


Abstract:

Politically correct pundits have been attempting to relegate Standard English
to the status of a dialect, since they have succumbed to the idea that it is
connected to “class”. This book tears up this falsehood, pointing out that it
is a question of education far more than of class. And, even then, why attack
class?

This linguistic disease has now infected the British Civil Service, and, in
turn, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, once regarded as the bastion of
good, clear English. The book demonstrates, through original texts, how FCO
English has deteriorated in the last thirty years, owing to a combination of
the attack on Standard English, (American) globalisation, the unfettered
electronification of communications, Twitter, Blairism, and even attitudes
towards sex. The upshot is that, in tandem with the US-influenced invasion of
clear, traditional English, has come a serious loss in Britain’s independence.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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