Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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Page 37
... effect of codification and prescription has been to legitimise the norms of formal registers of standard English rather than the norms of everyday spoken English . Codifiers have legislated and prescribers have tried to put the ...
... effect of codification and prescription has been to legitimise the norms of formal registers of standard English rather than the norms of everyday spoken English . Codifiers have legislated and prescribers have tried to put the ...
Page 59
... effect of maintaining greater diversity in spoken English usage than the standard ideology would require ( see further the discus- sion of ' social norms ' and ' community norms ' in Chapter 6 ) . 3.3 Spoken English and the effects of ...
... effect of maintaining greater diversity in spoken English usage than the standard ideology would require ( see further the discus- sion of ' social norms ' and ' community norms ' in Chapter 6 ) . 3.3 Spoken English and the effects of ...
Page 127
... effects of the observer's paradox . First , both made use , in one way or another , of the effect of group dynamics on linguistic style ; it is a common experience of field- workers that the presence of a group greatly diminishes the ...
... effects of the observer's paradox . First , both made use , in one way or another , of the effect of group dynamics on linguistic style ; it is a common experience of field- workers that the presence of a group greatly diminishes the ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English James Milroy,Lesley Milroy Limited preview - 2012 |
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