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Behind the Words : The FCO, Hegemonolingualism and the End of Britain's Freedom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443868921
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Behind the WordsDDC classification:
  • 422
LOC classification:
  • PE1574 -- .M355 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Summary: 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 bo.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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 bo.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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