The Languages of Nation: Attitudes and Norms - Couverture rigide

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9781847697806: The Languages of Nation: Attitudes and Norms
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1847697801 ISBN 13 : 9781847697806
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2012

Synopsis

This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.

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À propos de l?auteur

Carol Percy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her work on eighteenth-century normative linguistics began with Captain Cook and his editor, and women grammarians. Recent articles provide literary and cultural contexts for popular grammars, and consider prescriptive attitudes in the popular press - book reviews and classified advertisements. Mary Catherine Davidson is Associate Professor of English at Glendon College, York University, Canada. Her book Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) examined multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Her current book project charts the changing status of American English in the representation and reception of dialects and second languages in Hollywood film in the 1940s and 50s.

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Éditeur
Multilingual Matters
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847697801
ISBN 13 
9781847697806
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
Éditeur
Percy Carol, Davidson Mary Catherine
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Personne responsable
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