Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... distinction between this ' formal structure ' and the actual use of language on particular occasions . A distinction of this kind has been basic in the work of most general linguists since de Saussure proposed a distinction between ...
... distinction between this ' formal structure ' and the actual use of language on particular occasions . A distinction of this kind has been basic in the work of most general linguists since de Saussure proposed a distinction between ...
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... distinction has much in common with a distinction that we shall make in Chapter 3 between informal conversational speech on the one hand and writing on the other . The difficulties that children face at school might indeed be better ...
... distinction has much in common with a distinction that we shall make in Chapter 3 between informal conversational speech on the one hand and writing on the other . The difficulties that children face at school might indeed be better ...
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... distinction to the grammar ; yet it is stigmatised . Similarly , the lack of an epicene ( masculine and feminine ) pronoun in English is often felt to be inconvenient : colloquial speech often uses they in this function , but the ...
... distinction to the grammar ; yet it is stigmatised . Similarly , the lack of an epicene ( masculine and feminine ) pronoun in English is often felt to be inconvenient : colloquial speech often uses they in this function , but the ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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