Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... appear to vary their language according to stylistic context , so showing their sensitivity to these same variables . Moreover , it appears from a number of recent studies of young children that linguistic sex - grading and style ...
... appear to vary their language according to stylistic context , so showing their sensitivity to these same variables . Moreover , it appears from a number of recent studies of young children that linguistic sex - grading and style ...
Page 100
... appears between words like this , it is not apparently subject to criticism in the same way as it is when it appears as a variant of / t / ; presumably for the reason that it does not have a socially patterned distribution in this ...
... appears between words like this , it is not apparently subject to criticism in the same way as it is when it appears as a variant of / t / ; presumably for the reason that it does not have a socially patterned distribution in this ...
Page 112
... appears , for some speakers , to be more important than the acceptance of the social norm with its associated meanings of power and status . These observations may be related to patterns of language use among black speakers in Britain ...
... appears , for some speakers , to be more important than the acceptance of the social norm with its associated meanings of power and status . These observations may be related to patterns of language use among black speakers in Britain ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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