Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... observed while he watched the pigs wallowing in the mire ' Rightly be they called pigs on account of their ... observation of language . We have referred above to the ' formal structures ' of languages , implying a distinction between ...
... observed while he watched the pigs wallowing in the mire ' Rightly be they called pigs on account of their ... observation of language . We have referred above to the ' formal structures ' of languages , implying a distinction between ...
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... observed in language systems ) without inquiring into the social origins and social mechanisms of change . It is speakers who innovate in the first place - not languages . In recent years it has been repeatedly demonstrated that observed ...
... observed in language systems ) without inquiring into the social origins and social mechanisms of change . It is speakers who innovate in the first place - not languages . In recent years it has been repeatedly demonstrated that observed ...
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... observed to be used by speakers in an asymmetrical social situation is likely to represent only a tiny fraction of ... observation . While the analysis of Crystal and Davy ( 1969 ) on the other hand is firmly based on systematic ...
... observed to be used by speakers in an asymmetrical social situation is likely to represent only a tiny fraction of ... observation . While the analysis of Crystal and Davy ( 1969 ) on the other hand is firmly based on systematic ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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