This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism.
This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism.
Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UK. Morana Lukä is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany. Robin Straaijer is an independent researcher of English language in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Linguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field. Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukä and Robin Straaijer PART I Theoretical and methodological issues Edited by Joan C. Beal 1 Why grammars have to be normative - and prescriptivists have to be scientific Geoffrey K. Pullum 2 Verbal hygiene Deborah Cameron 3 Accent bias Dominic Watt, Erez Levon and Christian Ilbury 4 Historiographical methods Nuria Yáñez-Bouza 5 Corpus-based approaches to prescriptivism Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Dieuwertje Bloemen 6 Prescription and normativity in the evolution of inner-circle Englishes Pam Peters 7 The role of prescriptivism in the emergence of New Englishes Edgar W. Schneider 8 Prescriptivism and national identity Stefan Dollinger 9 Standards with pluricentric languages Raymond Hickey PART II Contexts and practices of prescriptivism Edited by Robin Straaijer 10 Usage guides as a text type Ingrid Teken-Boon van Ostade 11 English prescriptivism in higher education contexts: focus on Nordic countries Elizabeth Petersen and Marika Hall 12 Prescriptivism in education: from language ideologies to listening practices Ian Cushing and Julia Snell 13 Linguistic prescriptivism as social prescription: the case of gender Evan D. Bradley 14 Grassroots prescriptivism Morana Lukä and Theresa Heyd 15. Prescription and taboo: Australia's sensitivity towards American influence Kate Burridge 16 Copy editors, (not) all alike Morana Lukä and Adrian Stenton PART III Prescriptivism across languages and cultures Edited by Morana Lukä 17 Standard language ideology and prescriptivism in the Arabic-speaking world Andreas Hallberg 18 Prescriptive language ideologies in Modern Hebrew Roey Gafter and Uri Mor 19 A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to African languages of South Africa Russell H Kaschula, Sebolelo Mokapela, Dion Nkomo, and Bulelwa Nosilela 20 Prescriptivism in Greater China: Historical trajectories and contemporary pluricentricity Henning Klöter 21 Prescriptivism and the English language in Southeast Asia Lionel Wee and Nora Samosir 22 Literary norms in Russia: Past and present Arto Mustajoki 23 Prescriptivism in Croatia An el Star evi , Mate Kapovi , and Daliborka Sari 24 Prescriptivism and diglossia: How acceptable is normalized Breton to native speakers? Gary German 25 Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: The case of France and Quebec Olivia Walsh and Emma Humphries 26 Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective: Measuring the effect of institutionalized prescriptivism Eline Lismont, Rik Vosters, and Gijsbert Rutten Afterword David Crystal Index
Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Linguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field. Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukä and Robin Straaijer PART I Theoretical and methodological issues Edited by Joan C. Beal 1 Why grammars have to be normative - and prescriptivists have to be scientific Geoffrey K. Pullum 2 Verbal hygiene Deborah Cameron 3 Accent bias Dominic Watt, Erez Levon and Christian Ilbury 4 Historiographical methods Nuria Yáñez-Bouza 5 Corpus-based approaches to prescriptivism Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Dieuwertje Bloemen 6 Prescription and normativity in the evolution of inner-circle Englishes Pam Peters 7 The role of prescriptivism in the emergence of New Englishes Edgar W. Schneider 8 Prescriptivism and national identity Stefan Dollinger 9 Standards with pluricentric languages Raymond Hickey PART II Contexts and practices of prescriptivism Edited by Robin Straaijer 10 Usage guides as a text type Ingrid Teken-Boon van Ostade 11 English prescriptivism in higher education contexts: focus on Nordic countries Elizabeth Petersen and Marika Hall 12 Prescriptivism in education: from language ideologies to listening practices Ian Cushing and Julia Snell 13 Linguistic prescriptivism as social prescription: the case of gender Evan D. Bradley 14 Grassroots prescriptivism Morana Lukä and Theresa Heyd 15. Prescription and taboo: Australia's sensitivity towards American influence Kate Burridge 16 Copy editors, (not) all alike Morana Lukä and Adrian Stenton PART III Prescriptivism across languages and cultures Edited by Morana Lukä 17 Standard language ideology and prescriptivism in the Arabic-speaking world Andreas Hallberg 18 Prescriptive language ideologies in Modern Hebrew Roey Gafter and Uri Mor 19 A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to African languages of South Africa Russell H Kaschula, Sebolelo Mokapela, Dion Nkomo, and Bulelwa Nosilela 20 Prescriptivism in Greater China: Historical trajectories and contemporary pluricentricity Henning Klöter 21 Prescriptivism and the English language in Southeast Asia Lionel Wee and Nora Samosir 22 Literary norms in Russia: Past and present Arto Mustajoki 23 Prescriptivism in Croatia An el Star evi , Mate Kapovi , and Daliborka Sari 24 Prescriptivism and diglossia: How acceptable is normalized Breton to native speakers? Gary German 25 Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: The case of France and Quebec Olivia Walsh and Emma Humphries 26 Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective: Measuring the effect of institutionalized prescriptivism Eline Lismont, Rik Vosters, and Gijsbert Rutten Afterword David Crystal Index
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