Describing prescriptivism : usage guides and usage problems in British and American English / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Usage.

English language.

English language--Standardization.

Standard language--Great Britain.

Standard language.

Standard language--United States.

Great Britain.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. The origin of the usage guide

3. The usage guide and the HUGE database

4. The writers and the publishers

5. Usage problems: Pet linguistic peeves

6. The language of prescriptivism

7. Public awareness of prescriptivism

8. The end of prescriptivism?

Appendix 1. Feedback on a blogpost (January 2015)

Appendix 2. Usage problems in the HUGE database

Appendix 3. Usage guide writers interviewed

Appendix 4. Usage guide writers' credentials

Appendix 5. The metalinguistic categories from Sundby et al. (1991)

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367207182

0367207184

OCLC:

1091298027