Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in the present day. With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, history of English and sociolinguistics.
Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in the present day. With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, history of English and sociolinguistics.
Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The origin of the usage guide Chapter 3. The usage guide - and the HUGE database Chapter 4. The writers and the publishers Chapter 5. Usage problems: pet linguistic peeves Chapter 6. The language of prescriptivism Chapter 7. Public awareness of prescriptivism Chapter 8. The end of prescriptivism? Appendix 1. Feedback on a blogpost (January 2015) Appendix 2. Usage problems in the HUGE database Appendix 3. Usage guide writers interviewed Appendix 4. Usage guide writers' credentials Appendix 5. The metalinguistic categories from Sundby et al. (1991) References Index
Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The origin of the usage guide Chapter 3. The usage guide - and the HUGE database Chapter 4. The writers and the publishers Chapter 5. Usage problems: pet linguistic peeves Chapter 6. The language of prescriptivism Chapter 7. Public awareness of prescriptivism Chapter 8. The end of prescriptivism? Appendix 1. Feedback on a blogpost (January 2015) Appendix 2. Usage problems in the HUGE database Appendix 3. Usage guide writers interviewed Appendix 4. Usage guide writers' credentials Appendix 5. The metalinguistic categories from Sundby et al. (1991) References Index
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