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OverviewThis book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the practice of prescriptivism. The chapters cover three main areas: language, which represents the traditional roots of the study of linguistic norms in authoritative (historical) manuals and judgemental attitudes to language usage; literary and scripted texts, which illustrates the enregisterment of the values of linguistic prescriptivism as a social and cultural phenomenon; and speech communities, which reflects the growth in scope of the field to consider geographical contexts beyond mainstream British and American English to include varieties of English and other languages worldwide. The book also discusses recent theoretical and methodological advances in the study of prescriptivism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza , María E. Rodríguez‐Gil , Javier Pérez‐GuerraPublisher: Multilingual Matters Imprint: Multilingual Matters Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.650kg ISBN: 9781800416147ISBN 10: 1800416148 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 16 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis important volume showcases prescriptivism in diverse linguistic, historical and sociocultural settings. Normative attitudes and practices are integral to people’s linguistic behaviour, and this book puts a powerful spotlight on the need to balance prescriptive and descriptive perspectives — without this marriage of opposites, we cannot hope to understand the complex and dynamic nature of human language. * Kate Burridge, Monash University, Australia * This important volume showcases prescriptivism in diverse linguistic, historical and sociocultural settings. Normative attitudes and practices are integral to people’s linguistic behaviour, and this book puts a powerful spotlight on the need to balance prescriptive and descriptive perspectives — without this marriage of opposites, we cannot hope to understand the complex and dynamic nature of human language. * Kate Burridge, Monash University, Australia * Embark on a captivating journey into prescriptivism research with this insightful volume. Seamlessly integrating compelling case studies from diverse languages and varieties into thematic strands, the book not only celebrates the field's richness but also underscores its mature evolution, unveiling enticing avenues for future exploration. * Eline Lismont, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Author InformationNuria Yáñez-Bouza is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in historical sociolinguistics with a focus on the relationship between norms and usage in the 18th century. She has also been actively involved in the field of Digital Humanities with the compilation of corpora and electronic databases. María E. Rodríguez-Gil is Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Her research expertise lies in the field of the 18th-century grammatical tradition, the relationship between prescriptivism and descriptivism, and the history of the teaching of English to a native and non-native audience. Javier Pérez-Guerra is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Spain. His areas of specialisation are information packaging in the clause, multidimensional approaches to register variation as applied to earlier periods of English, the study of grammatical variation between modern and Present-day English from corpus-based empirical perspectives, and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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