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Sounds Appealing
David Crystal
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ...
There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do.
Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology - with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill - David Crystal explores the origins of regional accents, how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.
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Delicious revelations ... Crystal does an excellent job, not just of tracing the etymology of a word, but of relating it to social history, painting a picture of our times through words
Refreshing and briskly written ... Crystal shows that grammar is not nearly as tedious as it can seem
If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide
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phonetics, southern accent, accent, phoneticians, delivery, science of language, northern accent, speech therapy, language, pronunciation, regional accents, eliza doolittle, speech, british english