Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... fact , by following your teacher's rules , you suspect that you may find yourself less able to communicate easily ... facts of language use , and by the tendency noted by Platt and Weber to view as inferior even well - established usage ...
... fact , by following your teacher's rules , you suspect that you may find yourself less able to communicate easily ... facts of language use , and by the tendency noted by Platt and Weber to view as inferior even well - established usage ...
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... fact our own findings were that young men delete the consonant in spon- taneous speech eighty - nine per cent of the time about twice as often as women on average ( Milroy and Milroy , 1978 ) . ) As a result of this uncertainty about ...
... fact our own findings were that young men delete the consonant in spon- taneous speech eighty - nine per cent of the time about twice as often as women on average ( Milroy and Milroy , 1978 ) . ) As a result of this uncertainty about ...
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... fact , that she could not easily manipulate her syntactic resources to ask questions , negate , or produce passives . We are emphasising here the weakness of language tests which allow only for ' right ' or ' wrong ' responses ...
... fact , that she could not easily manipulate her syntactic resources to ask questions , negate , or produce passives . We are emphasising here the weakness of language tests which allow only for ' right ' or ' wrong ' responses ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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