Language Change: Progress or Decay?

Language Change: Progress or Decay?

Author	Jean Aitchison
Language	English
Subject	language change
Publisher	Fontana Press (1st ed), Cambridge University Press (from 2nd ed onward)
Publication date	1981 (1st ed), 4th ed (2012)
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	308
ISBN	9781107023628

Language Change: Progress or Decay? is a book on language change by Jean Aitchison in which the author concludes that language change is neither a process of decay nor progress.

Reception

The book was reviewed by Philip Baldi, Edwin L. Battistella and John Mullen. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

References

1. "Review of "Language Change : Progress or Decay" by Jean Aitchison".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. Battistella, Edwin L (2004). "Language Change: Progress or Decay? (review)". Language. 80 (1): 166–167. doi:10.1353/lan.2004.0001. ISSN   1535-0665. S2CID   144583544.
3. Baldi, Philip (1983). "Review of Language Change: Progress or Decay?". Language. 59 (2): 411–414. doi:10.2307/413585. ISSN   0097-8507. JSTOR   413585.

External links

• Language Change: Progress or Decay?
• 3rd edition