Language Myths and the History of English communications systems and Catharine Trotter Cockburn

and Catharine Trotter Cockburn

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Language Myths and the History of English communications systems and Catharine Trotter CockburnLanguage Myths and the History of English aims to deconstruct the myths that are traditionally reproduced as factual accounts of the historical development of English. Using concepts and interpretive sensibilities developed in the field of sociolinguistics over the past 40 years, Richard J. Watts unearths these myths and exposes their ideological roots. His goal is not to construct an alternative discourse, but to offer alternative readings of the