Words, Words, Words: An insider's reflections on BBC broadcasting about English. (12th August 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Words, Words, Words: An insider's reflections on BBC broadcasting about English. (12th August 2015)
- Main Title:
- Words, Words, Words
- Authors:
- Elmes, Simon
- Abstract:
- Abstract : It's difficult to imagine the relatively civilised, slightly worn corridors of London's old Broadcasting House, headquarters of the BBC, as being the frontline in a war. No trenches; no barbed wire; not a sign of battle-fatigue to be seen … Yet here whizz-bangs are almost as frequent as they were at the Somme. For frontline this indeed is; a place where battle-royal is pitched between the opposing camps of linguistic orthodoxy and originality. The spot where, like a pair of weirdly-named opponents from Gulliver's Travels, the Descriptivists do battle with the Prescriptivists.
- Is Part Of:
- English today. Volume 31:Part 3(2015:Sep.)
- Journal:
- English today
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Part 3(2015:Sep.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 3, Part 3 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 3
- Part:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0031-0003-0003
- Page Start:
- 3
- Page End:
- 8
- Publication Date:
- 2015-08-12
- Subjects:
- English language -- Periodicals
420.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ENG ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0266078415000176 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0266-0784
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- Legaldeposit
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