Prescription and Tradition in Language : : Establishing Standards across Time and Space / / ed. by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Carol Percy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ameka, Felix K.,; Ayres-Bennett, Wendy,; Banhold, Dominik,; Barasa, Sandra Nekesa,; Barros, Rita Queiroz de,; Candel, Danielle,; Chapman, Don,; Coulmas, Florian,; Duijff, Pieter,; Gill, Martin,; Gjurkova, Aleksandra,; Kaunisto, Mark,; Klöter, Henning,; Lochtman, Katja,; Mustajoki, Arto,; Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van,; Oñederra, Miren Lourdes,; Percy, Carol,; Peters, Pam,; Rutten, Gijsbert,; Smakman, Dick,; Smits, Matthijs,; Straaijer, Robin,; Vaicekauskiene, Loreta,; Viðarsson, Heimir van der Feest,; Vosters, Rik,
• HerausgeberIn: Percy, Carol,; Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of 'traditional' language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Prescription and Tradition: Establishing Standards across Time and Space -- Part 1: General and Theoretical -- 2. Defining 'Standard': Towards a Cross-Cultural Definition of the Language Norm -- 3. Prescriptivism and Writing Systems -- 4. 'What is Correct Chinese?' Revisited -- 5. The Uselessness of the Useful: Language Standardisation and Variation in Multilingual Contexts -- 6. Prescriptivism and Sociolinguistic Competence in German as a Foreign Language -- Part 2: Prescription and Tradition -- 7. Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of France and England -- 8. 'A Higher Standard of Correctness than is Quite Desirable': Linguistic Prescriptivism in Charles Dickens's Journals -- 9. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Competing Language Norms in the Southern Low Countries (1815-1830) -- 10. The Syntax of Others: 'Un-Icelandic' Verb Placement in 19thand Early 20th-Century Icelandic -- 11. School Grammars and Language Guides: Prescriptivism in the German Language Codex in the Early 20th Century -- Part 3: Usage Guides: An English Tradition -- 12. A Perspective on Prescriptivism: Language in Reviews of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage -- 13. Which Items Need to be Standardised? Variation in the Choice of Entries in Usage Guides -- 14. 'Garnering' Respect? The Emergence of Authority in the American Usage Tradition -- 15. Stalwarts, SNOOTS and Some Readers: How 'Traditional Rules' are Traditional -- Part 4: Redefining Boundaries: Current Issues and Challenges -- 16. 'Goodbye, Sweet England': Language, Nation and Normativity in Popular British News Media -- 17. Prescription and Tradition: From the French Dictionnaire de l'Académie to the Official French Language Enrichment Process (1996-2014) -- 18. Challenges in the Standardisation of Contemporary Russian -- 19. Language Regimentation as Soviet Inheritance: Joining Scholarship and State Ideology -- 20. Prescription and Language Management in Macedonia -- 21. The Standardisation Process of Frisian: A Word List as a Result -- 22. The Standardisation of Pronunciation: Basque Today, between Maintenance and Variation -- Epilogue: On Establishing the Standard Language - and Language Standards -- Index