| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (404 pages)
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| Disciplina |
306.44
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| Collana |
Multilingual Matters
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| Soggetto topico |
Space and time in language - History
English language - Grammar - History
Standard language - History
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| ISBN |
1-78309-652-7
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Prescription and Tradition: Establishing Standards across Time and Space -- 2. Defining ‘Standard’: Towards a Cross-Cultural Definition of the Language Norm -- 3. Prescriptivism and Writing Systems -- 4. ‘What is Correct Chinese?’ Revisited -- 5. The Uselessness of the Useful: Language Standardisation and Variation in Multilingual Contexts -- 6. Prescriptivism and Sociolinguistic Competence in German as a Foreign Language -- 7. Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of France and England -- 8. ‘A Higher Standard of Correctness than is Quite Desirable’: Linguistic Prescriptivism in Charles Dickens’s Journals -- 9. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Competing Language Norms in the Southern Low Countries (1815–1830) -- 10. The Syntax of Others: ‘Un-Icelandic’ Verb Placement in 19thand Early 20th-Century Icelandic -- 11. School Grammars and Language Guides: Prescriptivism in the German Language Codex in the Early 20th Century -- 12. A Perspective on Prescriptivism: Language in Reviews of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage -- 13. Which Items Need to be Standardised? Variation in the Choice of Entries in Usage Guides -- 14. ‘Garnering’ Respect? The Emergence of Authority in the American Usage Tradition -- 15. Stalwarts, SNOOTS and Some Readers: How ‘Traditional Rules’ are Traditional -- 16. ‘Goodbye, Sweet England’: Language, Nation and Normativity in Popular British News Media -- 17. Prescription and Tradition: From the French Dictionnaire de l’Académie to the Official French Language Enrichment Process (1996–2014) -- 18. Challenges in the Standardisation of Contemporary Russian -- 19. Language Regimentation as Soviet Inheritance: Joining Scholarship and State Ideology -- 20. Prescription and Language Management in Macedonia -- 21. The Standardisation Process of Frisian: A Word List as a Result -- 22. The Standardisation of Pronunciation: Basque Today, between Maintenance and Variation -- Epilogue: On Establishing the Standard Language – and Language Standards -- Index
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149407603321 |
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Prescription and Tradition in Language : Establishing Standards across Time and Space / / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Carol Percy
