New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research / / ed. by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza, María E. Rodríguez‐Gil, Javier Pérez‐Guerra.

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• MitwirkendeR: Císlerová, Magdalena,; Doibale, Kranti,; Ebner-Mosely, Carmen,; Hodson, Jane,; Labade, Sachin,; Lange, Claudia,; Loureiro-Porto, Lucía,; Meulen, Marten van der,; Moschonas, Spiros A.,; Mourlas, Costas,; Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van,; Paraskevas, Thodoris,; Pillière, Linda,; Viðarsson, Heimir F.,; Vos, Machteld de,; Wanner, Anja,; Wiemann, Marco,; Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria,; Zhang, Difei,
• HerausgeberIn: Pérez‐Guerra, Javier,; Rodríguez‐Gil, María E.,; Yáñez‐Bouza, Nuria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters ; 176
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.