Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... possible . This means not only other researchers , but also all those who are involved in educational , social and political policy - making , from individual teachers to government . It is an area where value judgments cannot be ...
... possible . This means not only other researchers , but also all those who are involved in educational , social and political policy - making , from individual teachers to government . It is an area where value judgments cannot be ...
Page 60
... possible to collect extensive samples of spoken language and to analyse them in much greater detail than was previously possible . Although great advances have been made since about 1960 in the study of spoken language , language ...
... possible to collect extensive samples of spoken language and to analyse them in much greater detail than was previously possible . Although great advances have been made since about 1960 in the study of spoken language , language ...
Page 127
... possible this observer effect to which language is dramatically sensitive . Two studies are cited here as illustrating how the observer's paradox might be partly overcome ; that of Labov , Cohen , Robins and Lewis ( 1968 ) in Harlem ...
... possible this observer effect to which language is dramatically sensitive . Two studies are cited here as illustrating how the observer's paradox might be partly overcome ; that of Labov , Cohen , Robins and Lewis ( 1968 ) in Harlem ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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