Describing Prescriptivism - Couverture rigide

Van Ostade, Ingrid Tieken-Boon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367207184 ISBN 13 : 9780367207182

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring:

• a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years;

• an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database - developed specifically to enable this line of study - as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC;

• a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project's blog.*

With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics.

*Found at https: //bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is Chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and has published extensively on the latter end of the English standardisation process.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367207184
• ISBN 13: 9780367207182
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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