You're All Talk
why we are what we speak
$31.31
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
Why do we have different accents and where do they come from? Why do you say ‘tomayto’ and I say ‘tomahto?’ And is one way of speaking better than another?
In You’re All Talk, linguist Rob Drummond explores the enormous diversity of our spoken language to reveal extraordinary insights into how humans operate: how we perceive (and judge) other people and how we would like ourselves to be perceived. He investigates how and why we automatically associate different accents with p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922585455 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922585459 |
| Author: | Rob Drummond |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 153mm x 233mm |
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Rob Drummond
Rob Drummond teaches linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is currently working on a large project exploring the accents and dialects of people in Greater Manchester. He appears regularly on radio and TV talking about language-related issues. He is ‘resident linguist’ on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb and appeared in the recent Radio 4 documentary East Meets West, as well as featuring on BBC Breakfast.
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