Language Prescription : : Values, Ideologies and Identity / / ed. by Don Chapman, Jacob D. Rawlins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Anderwald, Lieselotte,; Burridge, Kate,; Chapman, Don,; Ebner, Carmen,; Joseph, John E.,; Kostadinova, Viktorija,; Owen, Jonathon,; Perkins, Marla,; Pillière, Linda,; Rawlins, Jacob D.,; Russo, Giuliana,; Severin, Alyssa A.,; Stephens-Hecker, Nola,; Vaicekauskienė, Loreta,; van der Meulen, Marten,
• HerausgeberIn: Chapman, Don,; Rawlins, Jacob D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Values and Binaries in Language Evaluation -- Part 1 Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary -- 2 Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, Linguistics and Standards of Language -- 3 Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation -- 4 Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It -- Part 2: Prescriptivism vs Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary -- 5 The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism -- 6 Examining the Split Infi nitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change -- 7 Language Should Be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917–2016 -- 8 Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania -- Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity -- 9 ‘Good Guys’ vs ‘Bad Guys’: Constructing Linguistic Identities on the Basis of Usage Problems -- 10 What Do ‘Little Aussie Sticklers’ Value Most? -- 11 Grammar Next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel -- 12 Linguistic Cleanliness is Next to Godliness – But Not for Conservative Anabaptists -- Part 4 Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation -- 13 Fowler’s Values: Ideology and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) -- 14 US Copy Editors, Style Guides and Usage Guides and their Impact on British Novels -- 15 Practicing Prescriptivism: How Copy Editors Treat Prescriptive Rules -- Index