29.451, Books: English Usage Guides: Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:56:04
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: English Usage Guides: Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.)

 


Title: English Usage Guides 
Subtitle: History, Advice, Attitudes 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/english-usage-guides-9780198808206 


Editor: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198808206 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage
guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while
Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first
English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770, and the first in the US
in 1847. Today, new titles come out nearly every year, while older works are
revised and reissued. Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that
have been addressed over the years are very much the same, and attitudes
towards them are slow to change - but they do change. The chapters in this
book look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of
advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; how
attitudes to usage change; and why institutions such as the BBC need their own
style guide. The volume will appeal not only to researchers and students in
sociolinguistics, but also to general readers with an interest in questions of
usage and prescriptivism, language professionals such as teachers and editors,
and language policy makers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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