TheLanguages of Nation : : Attitudes and Norms /

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

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 cultur...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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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

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