Call Her Daisy-Ray
John Sturrock: Accents and Attitudes, 11 September 2003
Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
by Lynda Mugglestone.
Oxford, 354 pp., £35, February 2003,0 19 925061 8 Show More
by Lynda Mugglestone.
Oxford, 354 pp., £35, February 2003,
“... putting the boot into the English language when standing in the dock to being sent down for GBH. Lynda Mugglestone might have risked stretching her brief in Talking Proper to touch on dark possibilities of the kind Barthes raised in connection with the Dominici affair, that the conclusions other people jump to when they hear us speak and don’t like ... ”
