Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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Page viii
... social and political policy - making , from individual teachers to government . It is an area where value judgments cannot be avoided . Any action that we take or , of course , avoidance of action - has moral , social and political ...
... social and political policy - making , from individual teachers to government . It is an area where value judgments cannot be avoided . Any action that we take or , of course , avoidance of action - has moral , social and political ...
Page 55
... social factors that affect linguistic change in the spoken channel , and balancing these against the factors that encourage stability and resist change . The discussion then moves on to the relation between the written and spoken ...
... social factors that affect linguistic change in the spoken channel , and balancing these against the factors that encourage stability and resist change . The discussion then moves on to the relation between the written and spoken ...
Page 109
... social hier- archies , and the persons of highest status with greatest potential for exercising power are always speakers of the linguistic variety which is judged to be the most logical , beautiful and comprehensible . Consequently ...
... social hier- archies , and the persons of highest status with greatest potential for exercising power are always speakers of the linguistic variety which is judged to be the most logical , beautiful and comprehensible . Consequently ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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