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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Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Bristol : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.
    ISBN
    • 9781783096503 ((hbk.))
    • 1783096500 ((hbk.))
    LCCN
    2016022810
    OCLC
    965734374
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