30.454, Books: Grassroots Prescriptvism: Lukač

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:46:19
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Grassroots Prescriptvism: Lukač

 


Title: Grassroots Prescriptvism 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/grassroots-prescriptvism 


Author: Morana Lukač

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933011 Pages: 263 Price: Europe EURO 34.00


Abstract:

Until the beginning of this century, with few notable exceptions,
prescriptivism has received little serious attention among the academic
linguistic community as a factor in language variation and change. The five
studies included in this book are embedded in the growing research initiative
that is attempting to paint a fine-grained picture of linguistic
prescriptivism in the English language. In contrast to institutional
prescriptivism, or the so-called prescriptivism from above, which is enforced
by bodies such as language planning boards, governmental committees, and
agencies, this book focuses on grassroots prescriptivism – the attempts of lay
people to promote the standard language ideology.

Grassroots prescriptivism investigates the metalinguistic comments of language
users expressed on traditional (letters to newspaper editors and radio
phone-ins) and new media platforms (forum and blog discussions). This book
demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, language users are not passive
recipients of language rules, but active participants in matters of linguistic
prescriptivism. The diachronic exploration of grassroots prescriptivism
reveals a complex picture. While in many respects, twenty-first-century
prescriptivism represents a continuation of the 250-year-old prescriptive
tradition, the author argues that prescriptivism, like language itself,
undergoes change over time.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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