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Message1: Fixing English: Curzan
Date:01-May-2014
From:Joyce Reid jreid at cambridge.org
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Title: Fixing English 
Subtitle: Prescriptivism and Language History 
Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/fixing-english-prescriptivism-and-language-history?format=HB 


Author: Anne Curzan

Hardback: ISBN:  Pages:  Price: U.K. � 55.00
Hardback: ISBN:  Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 80.00


Abstract:

Introduction: does prescriptivism fail?; 1. Prescriptivism's umbrella: standards, style, restoration, and political intervention; 2. Prescriptivism's lessons: scope and 'The history of English'; 3. Checking grammar and grammar checkers; 4. Dictionaries and the idea of 'real words'; 5. Non-sexist language reform and its effects; 6. Reappropriation and challenges to institutionalized prescriptivism; 7. Finding shared ground: public conversations about prescriptivism. 



Introduction: does prescriptivism fail?; 1. Prescriptivism's umbrella: standards, style, restoration, and political intervention; 2. Prescriptivism's lessons: scope and 'The history of English'; 3. Checking grammar and grammar checkers; 4. Dictionaries and the idea of 'real words'; 5. Non-sexist language reform and its effects; 6. Reappropriation and challenges to institutionalized prescriptivism; 7. Finding shared ground: public conversations about prescriptivism. 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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