Standardising English (eBook, ePUB)

Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language
Redaktion: Pilliere, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues that the way norms are established and enforced is the result of a complex network of social factors and cannot be explained simply by appeals to power and hegemony. It brings together insights from leading researchers to re-centre the discussion on linguistic communities and language users. It examines the philosophy underlying the urge to standardise language, and takes a closer look at both well-known and lesser-known historical dictionaries, grammars and usage guides, demonstrating that they cannot be simply labelled as 'prescriptivist'. Drawing on rich empirical data and case studies, it shows how the norm continues to function in society, influencing and affecting language users even today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108126090
• Artikelnr.: 53400236

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts: Introduction: the norms
and margins of English Linda Pillière, Wilfrid Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec
and Diana Lewis; 1. Approaching norms and margins on different levels:
going beyond the standard/non-standard divide Sandrine Sorlin; 2.
Prescriptive grammar and the rationalist cultural model of standardization
Natalia Guermanova; Part II. Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective:
3. Norms and rules in the history of grammar: French and English handbooks
in the seventeenth century Wilfrid Andrieu and Valérie Raby; 4. The end of
toleration? Language on the margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the
English Language Lynda Mugglestone; 5. Eighteenth-century pronouncing
dictionaries: reflecting usage or setting their own standard? Véronique
Pouillon; 6. Setting a standard: authors and sources in the OED Charlotte
Brewer; 7. Conflicting linguistic norms in the letters of Virginian
soldiers during the American Civil War Gaëlle Le Corre; 8. Correcting
English: Josephine Turck Baker and the early American usage guide tradition
Viktorija Kostadinova; Part III. Norms and Margins: Moving into the
Twenty-First Century: 9. The grammatical margins of class Ingrid
Tieken-Boon van Ostade; 10. Concepts of correctness and acceptability in
British English: exploring attitudes of lay people Carmen Eber; 11. Maori
English in Maori literature: standardising the margin into a norm Sonia
Dupuy; 12. Imposing a norm: the invisible marks of copy editors Linda
Pillière.