Language Prescription
Title | Language Prescription PDF eBook |
Author | Don Chapman |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788928393 |
This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.
Prescription and Tradition in Language
Title | Prescription and Tradition in Language PDF eBook |
Author | Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | 2016-11-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783096527 |
This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.
Language Prescription
Title | Language Prescription PDF eBook |
Author | Prof. Don Chapman |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788928385 |
This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.
Language Between Description and Prescription
Title | Language Between Description and Prescription PDF eBook |
Author | Lieselotte Anderwald |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0190270675 |
Based on 258 English grammar books, 'Language Between Description and Prescription' investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized.
A Text Book on Prescription Writing and Pharmacy
Title | A Text Book on Prescription Writing and Pharmacy PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Fantus |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Drugs |
ISBN |
Authority in Language
Title | Authority in Language PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Milroy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134687575 |
This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.
British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
Title | British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing PDF eBook |
Author | L. Paterson |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 187 |
Release | 2014-07-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137332735 |
This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English. The analysis is framed by a consideration of language-internal factors, such as syntactic agreement, and language-external factors, which include traditional grammatical prescriptivism and the language reforms resulting from second-wave feminism.