TheLanguages of Nation : : Attitudes and Norms / / ed. by Carol Percy, Mary Catherine Davidson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beal, Joan C.,; Chapman, Don,; Davidson, Mary Catherine,; Dossena, Marina,; Edwards, John,; Gill, Martin,; Kouega, Jean-Paul,; Lancashire, Ian,; McLelland, Nicola,; Mitchell, Linda C.,; Mugglestone, Lynda,; Percy, Carol,; Phillips, John D.,; Sturiale, Massimo,; Wee, Lionel,; Winer, Lise,
• HerausgeberIn: Davidson, Mary Catherine,; Percy, Carol,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Multilingual Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives on ‘Patriotic’ Prescriptivism -- 2. Foreword: Language, Prescriptivism, Nationalism – and Identity -- Part 1: Managing Language Policies -- 3. William Cecil and the Rectification of English -- 4. Prescribing Pastoral and Pragmatic Orientations: Challenges for Language Policy -- Part 2: Colonialism and Literary Canons -- 5. Mutual Preservation of Standard Language and National Identity in Early Modern Wales -- 6. ‘A Highly Poetical Language’? Scots, Burns, Patriotism and Evaluative Language in 19th-century Literary Reviews and Articles -- Part 3: Transmarine and Transatlantic Allegiances -- 7. Language and National Identity in 17th- and 18th-century England -- 8. ‘À la Mode de Paris’: Linguistic Patriotism and Francophobia in 18th-century Britain -- 9. Pronouncing Dictionaries between Patriotism and Prescriptivism: Perspectives on Provincialism in Webster’s America -- Part 4: Re-defining Boundaries: Ideology and Language Norms -- 10. Patriotism, Empire and Cultural Prescriptivism: Images of Anglicity in the OED -- 11. You Say Nucular; I Say Yourstupid: Popular Prescriptivism in the Politics of the United States -- Part 5: Identifying Norms and Attitudes in Postcolonial Contexts -- 12. English and Pidgin in Cameroon: Peaceful or Conflicting Coexistence? -- 13. Susu not Sousou: Nationalism, Prescriptivism and Etymology in a Postcolonial Creole Language Orthography -- Part 6: Prescribing Norms Beyond Borders: Foreign Language Teaching -- 14. Rules for the Neighbours: Prescriptions of the German Language for British Learners -- 15. Nativeness, Authority, Authenticity: The Construction of Belonging and Exclusion in Debates about English Language Proficiency and Immigration in Britain -- Index