Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... scholars , but in ' mainstream ' linguistics of recent times scholars have generally claimed that prescription is not a central part of their discipline and even that it is irrelevant to linguistics . It has not been fully studied as an ...
... scholars , but in ' mainstream ' linguistics of recent times scholars have generally claimed that prescription is not a central part of their discipline and even that it is irrelevant to linguistics . It has not been fully studied as an ...
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... scholars and the general public ( especially when we consider that scholars have been insisting on objective description for so long since the time of Trench and Müller ) . One reason for this is that ' mainstream ' linguistics ...
... scholars and the general public ( especially when we consider that scholars have been insisting on objective description for so long since the time of Trench and Müller ) . One reason for this is that ' mainstream ' linguistics ...
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... scholars , a standard language is one which has minimal variation of form and maximal variation of function ( Leith , 1983 : 32 ) . Such a definition is a suitably relative one , but it is clear that the various stages that are usually ...
... scholars , a standard language is one which has minimal variation of form and maximal variation of function ( Leith , 1983 : 32 ) . Such a definition is a suitably relative one , but it is clear that the various stages that are usually ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
Copyright | |
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