Full Description
This 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.
Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1. Nuria Yáñez-Bouza: Prescriptivism in Language, Literary Texts and Speech Communities
Part 1: Prescriptivism in Language Norms
Chapter 2. Marco Wiemann: 'One of the commonest faults of even well-bred people'? Attitudes towards Post-vocalic /r/-absence, /h/-dropping and /h/-insertion in 19th-Century English Grammars
Chapter 3. Carmen Ebner-Mosely: 'Your not my type': Effects of Stigmatised Linguistic Variation in Online Dating
Chapter 4. Anja Wanner and Difei (Lynn) Zhang: Bad Grammar and Metalinguistic Awareness
Part 2: Prescriptivism in Literary and Scripted Texts
Chapter 5. Joan C. Beal: Poetry's for Kings: Prescriptivism and Resistance in English Poetry
Chapter 6. Jane Hodson: The Significance of Stance in Fictional Representations of Non-Standard Language and Prescriptivism
Chapter 7. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Breaking the Who/Whom Rule: The Final Taboo?
Chapter 8. Linda Pillière: Evaluating the Standardising Influence of the Copy Editor: A Qualitative Study
Part 3: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities I: Varieties of English
Chapter 9. Lucía Loureiro-Porto: 'He speak very careful English': A View on Prescriptivism in Two Outer-Circle Varieties of English
Chapter 10. Kranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Claudia Lange: Indian English Usage in the 21st Century: Enduring Colonial Norms and Emerging Local Standards
Chapter 11. Magdalena Císlerová: 'Cahstle, (...) not kehstle': Reflections of Prescriptivism in Australian Literature
Part 4: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities II: Beyond English Speaking Communities
Chapter 12. Heimir F. Viðarsson: Towards Modelling Past and Present Effects of Prescriptivism: Icelandic 19th- and 21st-Century Student Essays
Chapter 13. Spiros A. Moschonas, Costas Mourlas and Thodoris Paraskevas: Prescriptivism and Variation: The Greek Word for 'Coronavirus'
Chapter 14. Machteld de Vos and Marten van der Meulen: Suppressed No More: Prescriptivism and the Evaluation of Optional Variability
Index
