Acceptability in Language / / ed. by Sidney Greenbaum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Afolayan, Adebisi,; Bickerton, Derek,; Dijk, Teun A. van,; Eagleson, Robert D.,; Gent, J. A. W. M. van,; Greenbaum, Sidney,; Haans, A. F. J.,; Lakoff, Robin,; Levelt, W. J. M.,; McDavid, Raven I.,; Meijer, Guus,; Meijers, A. J. A.,; Mohan, Β. Α.,; O’Cain, Raymond K.,; Rabin, Chaim,; Snow, Catherine,; Svartvik, Jan,; Tottie, Gunnel,; Wright, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Greenbaum, Sidney,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria
• 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles
• 4. Acceptability in Context
• 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability
• 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language
• 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery
• 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina
• 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar
• 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language
• 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions
• 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English
• 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context