Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... prescriptive attitudes have far - reaching consequences including the two already mentioned , and these con- sequences are explored in some detail in later chapters . But , in the remainder of this chapter , we are concerned more ...
... prescriptive attitudes have far - reaching consequences including the two already mentioned , and these con- sequences are explored in some detail in later chapters . But , in the remainder of this chapter , we are concerned more ...
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... Prescriptive rules have usually been devised in the first place for writing rather than speech . If such rules are imposed on speech , they may sometimes actually damage its expressive potential and flexibility . This is particularly ...
... Prescriptive rules have usually been devised in the first place for writing rather than speech . If such rules are imposed on speech , they may sometimes actually damage its expressive potential and flexibility . This is particularly ...
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... prescriptive grammarians were responsible for ' legitimising ' many of these distinctions ( such as saw v . seen ) . They may well have been on the point of disappear- ing from the language . Long before - around 1600 - Shakespeare had ...
... prescriptive grammarians were responsible for ' legitimising ' many of these distinctions ( such as saw v . seen ) . They may well have been on the point of disappear- ing from the language . Long before - around 1600 - Shakespeare had ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English James Milroy,Lesley Milroy Limited preview - 2012 |
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