Language Myths by Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill

Language Myths

Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill

189 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction essays science informative reflective slow-paced

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The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response f...

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