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Prescription and tradition in language : establishing standards across time and space / edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and Carol Percy.
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English
Published/Created
Bristol : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
©2017
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xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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P37.5.S65 P85 2017
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Space and time in language
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English language
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Grammar
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Standard language
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid
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Percy, Carol
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Series
Multilingual matters (Series) ; 165.
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Multilingual matters ; 165
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Prescription and tradition: Establishing standards across time and space / Carol Percy and Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
Part 1: General and theoretical
2. Defining 'standard': Towards a cross-cultural definition of the language norm / Dick Smakman and Sandra Nekesa Barasa
3. Prescriptivism and writing systems / Florian Coulmas
4. 'What is correct Chinese?' revisited / Henning Klöter
5. The uselessness of the useful: Language standardisation and variation in multilingual contexts / Felix K. Ameka
6. Prescriptivism and sociolinguistic competence in German as a foreign language / Katja Lochtman
Part 2: Prescription and tradition
7. Prescriptivism in a comparative perspective: The case of France and England / Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
8. 'A higher standard of correctness than is quite desirable': Linguistic prescriptivism in Charles Dickens's journals / Rita Queiroz de Barros
9. Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Competing language norms in the southern low countries (1815-1830) / Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters
10. The syntax of others: 'Un-Icelandic' verb placement in 19th- and early 20th-century Icelandic / Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson
11. School grammars and language guides: Prescriptivism in the German language codex in the early 20th century / Dominik Banhold
Part 3: Usage guides: An English tradition
12. A perspective on prescriptivism: Language in reviews of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage / Robin Straaijer
13. Which items need to be standardised? Variation in the choice of entries in usage guides / Mark Kaunisto
14. 'Garnering' respect? The emergence of authority in the American usage tradition / Matthijs Smits
15. Stalwarts, SNOOTS and some readers: How 'traditional rules' are traditional / Don Chapman
Part 4. Redefining boundaries: Current issues and challenges
16. 'Goodbye, Sweet England': Language, nation, and normativity in popular British news media / Martin Gill
17. Prescription and tradition: From the French Dictionnaire de l'Académie to the official French language enrichment process (1996-2014) / Danielle Candel
18. Challenges in the standardisation of contemporary Russian / Arto Mustajoki
19. Language regimentation as Soviet inheritance: Joining scholarship and state ideology / Loreta Vaicekauskiene
20. Prescription and language management in Macedonia / Aleksandra Gjurkova
21. The standardisation process of Frisian: A word list as a result / Pieter Duijff
22. The standardisation of pronunciation: Basque today, between maintenance and variation / Miren Lourdes Oñederra
Epilogue: On establishing the standard lanugage
and language standards / Pam Peters
Index.
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9781783096503 ((hbk.))
1783096500 ((hbk.))
LCCN
2016022810
OCLC
965734374
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