Description |
1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts; 1 Norms and Margins of English; 2 Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide; 3 Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation; Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective; 4 Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century |
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5 The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language6 Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard?; 7 Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED; 8 Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War; 9 Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition; Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century; 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class |
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11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm; 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors; Author Index; Subject Index |
Summary |
Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English language -- Standardization.
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English language -- Variation.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical
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English language -- Standardization
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English language -- Variation
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Pillière, Linda, 1958- editor.
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Andrieu, Wilfred, editor.
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Kerfelec, Valérie, editor.
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Lewis, Diana (Linguist) editor
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ISBN |
9781108128971 |
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1108128971 |
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9781108120470 |
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1108120474 |
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