New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research / / ed. by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza, María E. Rodríguez‐Gil, Javier Pérez‐Guerra.
The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary and scripted texts, and speech communities. Collectively, the chapters contextualise the role of prescriptivism in history as well as at the present time.
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2024] ©2024 |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Multilingual Matters ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part 1 Prescriptivism in Language Norms -- 2 ‘One of the commonest faults of even well-bred people’? Attitudes towards Post-vocalic /r/-absence, /h/-dropping and /h/-insertion in 19th-Century English Grammars -- 3 ‘Your not my type’: Eff ects of Stigmatised Linguistic Variation in Online Dating -- 4 Bad Grammar and Metalinguistic Awareness -- Part 2 Prescriptivism in Literary and Scripted Texts -- 6 The Signifi cance of Stance in Fictional Representations of Non-Standard Language and Prescriptivism -- 7 Breaking the Who/Whom Rule: The Final Taboo? -- 8 Evaluating the Standardising Infl uence of the Copy Editor: A Qualitative Study -- Part 3 Prescriptivism in Speech Communities I: Varieties of English -- 9 ‘He speak very careful English’: A View on Prescriptivism in Two Outer-Circle Varieties of English -- 10 Indian English Usage in the 21st Century: Enduring Colonial Norms and Emerging Local Standards -- 11 ‘Cahstle, (…) not kehstle’: Refl ections of Prescriptivism in Australian Literature -- Part 4 Prescriptivism in Speech Communities II: Beyond English-Speaking Communities -- 12 Towards Modelling Past and Present Eff ects of Prescriptivism: Icelandic 19th- and 21st-Century Student Essays -- 13 Prescriptivism and Variation: The Greek Word for ‘Coronavirus’ -- 14 Suppressed No More: Prescriptivism and the Evaluation of Optional Variability -- Index |
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Summary: | The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary and scripted texts, and speech communities. Collectively, the chapters contextualise the role of prescriptivism in history as well as at the present time. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781800416154 9783111332383 9783111428390 |
DOI: | 10.21832/9781800416154 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza, María E. Rodríguez‐Gil, Javier Pérez‐Guerra. |