Pedantry, preoccupation, and the presentation of self : an interdisciplinary study of attitudes towards language

This thesis discusses attitudes towards language from a variety of perspectives. It takes as a starting point a classification of metaphoric and metonymic schemata in the discourses of language cultivation and purism in Hungarian in the 1950s. Next, the perspective zooms out to explore the rise of v...

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Main Author: Tarsoly, E.
Other Authors: Abondolo, D. M.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2016
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.763121

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