English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes

ISBN-13: 9780198808206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade

Opis

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.

Recenzje

In sum, these essays portray both the current obsession with usage guides and the ultimate futility of trying to police language usage. Accessible surveys, charts, and graphs appear throughout ... Highly recommended.

O autorze

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and has a chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests include the final stages of English standardization - the codification of grammar and the rise and spread of prescriptivism - and the question of how grammar rules relate to actual usage. Her published work includes An Introduction to Late Modern English (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and, with OUP, The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism (2011) and In Search of Jane Austen: The Language of the Letters (2014).