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1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts; 1 Norms and Margins of English; 2 Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide; 3 Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation; Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective; 4 Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century. |
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5 The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language6 Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard?; 7 Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED; 8 Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War; 9 Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition; Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century; 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class. |
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11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm; 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors; Author Index; Subject Index. |
| Summary |
Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Standardization.
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English language -- Variation.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. |
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English language -- Grammar, Historical |
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English language -- Standardization |
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English language -- Variation |
| Added Author |
Pillière, Linda, 1958- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFkmtBT7DxwdQdtBqHFTd
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Andrieu, Wilfred, editor.
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Kerfelec, Valérie, editor.
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Lewis, Diana (Linguist) editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Standardising English. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018] 9781107191051 (DLC) 2017058240 (OCoLC)1020298861 |
| ISBN |
9781108128971 (electronic bk.) |
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1108128971 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108120470 (electronic bk.) |
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1108120474 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107191051 (hardcover) |
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110719105X (hardcover) |
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9781316641590 (paperback) |
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1316641597 (paperback) |
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