Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Describing Prescriptivism

Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in the present day. With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, history of English and sociolinguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781032337876
• ISBN-10: 1032337877
• Artikelnr.: 64230974

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is Chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and has published extensively on the latter end of the English standardisation process.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The origin of the usage guide
Chapter 3. The usage guide - and the HUGE database
Chapter 4. The writers and the publishers
Chapter 5. Usage problems: pet linguistic peeves
Chapter 6. The language of prescriptivism
Chapter 7. Public awareness of prescriptivism
Chapter 8. The end of prescriptivism?
Appendix 1. Feedback on a blogpost (January 2015)
Appendix 2. Usage problems in the HUGE database
Appendix 3. Usage guide writers interviewed
Appendix 4. Usage guide writers' credentials
Appendix 5. The metalinguistic categories from Sundby et al. (1991)
References
Index