Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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Page xi
... attempt to do this in a wide historical and social context . First , we consider some difficulties in assessing popular and publicly expressed attitudes to language use , and we relate prescrip- tive attitudes to the phenomenon of ...
... attempt to do this in a wide historical and social context . First , we consider some difficulties in assessing popular and publicly expressed attitudes to language use , and we relate prescrip- tive attitudes to the phenomenon of ...
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... attempt a fuller account of the nature of language standardisation . 1.2 Linguistics and prescription The existence of prescriptive attitudes is well known to linguistic scholars , but in ' mainstream ' linguistics of recent times ...
... attempt a fuller account of the nature of language standardisation . 1.2 Linguistics and prescription The existence of prescriptive attitudes is well known to linguistic scholars , but in ' mainstream ' linguistics of recent times ...
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... attempt to justify the usages they favour and con- demn those they dislike by appeals to logic , etymology and so forth . Very often , however , they make no attempt whatever to explain why one usage is correct and another incorrect ...
... attempt to justify the usages they favour and con- demn those they dislike by appeals to logic , etymology and so forth . Very often , however , they make no attempt whatever to explain why one usage is correct and another incorrect ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English James Milroy,Lesley Milroy Limited preview - 2012 |
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