The Languages of Nation

Attitudes and Norms
Herausgeber: Davidson, Mary Catherine; Percy, Carol

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. The contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity including citizenship, nativeness, ethnicity, politics, and empire.

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This book explores research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives on both institutional and informal mechanisms of prescriptivism, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity.

Produktdetails

• Multilingual Matters
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781847697806
• ISBN-10: 1847697801
• Artikelnr.: 35578351

Autorenporträt

Carol Percy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her work on eighteenth-century normative linguistics began with Captain Cook and his editors, and women grammarians. Recent articles provide literary and cultural contexts for popular grammars, and consider prescriptive attitudes in the popular press â" book reviews and classified advertisements. Mary Catherine Davidson is Associate Professor of English at Glendon College, York University, Canada. Her book Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) examined multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Her current book project charts the changing status of American English in the representation and reception of dialects and second languages in Hollywood film in the 1940s and 50s.