Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English

ISBN-13: 9781032337876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.