Youre All Talk : why we are what we speak

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Author: Drummond, Rob

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Published on 12 October 2023 by Scribe Publications in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 256 pages
143 x 225 x 26 | 368g

Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word PerfectRob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of How Language WorksIntriguing and engaging Gyles Brandreth, author of Word PlayWhy 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 Youre All Talk, linguist Rob Drummond explores the enormous diversity in 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 particular social characteristics degrees of friendliness, authority, social class, level of education, race, and so on and how we, consciously or subconsciously, change the way we speak in order to create different versions of ourselves to fit different environments.

Ultimately, Youre All Talk demonstrates the beauty of linguistic diversity and how embracing it can give us a better understanding of other people and ourselves.