Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and StandardisationRoutledge & K. Paul, 1985 - 189 pages |
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... variation and communicative competence as we have discussed them in earlier chapters . The first two chapters are concerned with the relation of prescrip- tion to standardisation of language , and to mechanisms by which standardisation ...
... variation and communicative competence as we have discussed them in earlier chapters . The first two chapters are concerned with the relation of prescrip- tion to standardisation of language , and to mechanisms by which standardisation ...
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... 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 involved in the development of a standard language may ...
... 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 involved in the development of a standard language may ...
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... variation in consonant systems and realisations found in English ( see Wells , 1982 for a recent account ) . This should not be a difficult task , as interdialectal variation affecting consonants ( and it is mainly consonants with which ...
... variation in consonant systems and realisations found in English ( see Wells , 1982 for a recent account ) . This should not be a difficult task , as interdialectal variation affecting consonants ( and it is mainly consonants with which ...
Contents
Standard English and the complaint tradition | 29 |
Spoken and written norms | 54 |
Grammar and speech | 70 |
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