| Description |
1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Multilingual matters ; 170 |
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Multilingual matters (Series) ; 170
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| Contents |
Introduction / Jacob D. Rawlins and Don Chapman -- Part 1: Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary: Is/Ought: Hume's Guillotine, linguistics, and standards of language / John E. Joseph -- Inferring prescriptivism: Considerations inspired by Hobongan and minority language documentation / Marla Perkins -- Are you a descriptivist or a prescriptivist? The meaning of the term descriptivism and the values of those who use it / Don Chapman -- Part 2: Prescriptivism vs. Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary: The linguistic value of investigating prescriptivism / Lieselotte Anderwald -- Prescriptivism as a constraint in language variation and change: Moving beyond binary oppositions / Viktorija Kostadinova -- Language should be pure and grammatical: Values in prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917-2016 / Marten van der Meulen -- Maintaining power through language correction: A case of L1 education in post-Soviet Lithuania / Loreta Vaicekauskienė -- Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity: "Good guys" vs "bad guys": Constructing linguistic identities on the basis of usage problems / Carmen Ebner -- What do "little Aussie Sticklers" value most? / Alyssa A. Severin and Kate Burridge -- Grammar next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel / Nola Stephens-Hecker -- Linguistic cleanliness is next to godliness -- but not for conservative Anabaptists / Kate Burridge -- Part 4: Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation: Fowler's values: Ideology and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) / Giuliana Russo -- US copy-editors, style guides, and usage guides and their impact on British novels / Linda Pillière -- Practicing prescriptivism: How copyeditors treat prescriptive rules / Jonathon Owen |
| Summary |
"This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2020) |
| Subject |
Language awareness.
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Language and languages -- Evaluation
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Social issues & processes.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Language awareness
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chapman, Don, 1962- editor.
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Rawlins, Jacob D., editor.
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| LC no. |
2019054095 |
| ISBN |
9781788928403 |
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1788928407 |
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9781788928397 |
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1788928385 |
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9781788928380 |
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1788928393 |
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