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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:04:28
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Proper English Usage: Ebner

 


Title: Proper English Usage 
Subtitle: A sociolinguistic investigation of attitudes towards usage problems in
British English 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/proper-english-usage 


Author: Carmen Ebner

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932519 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Focusing on the general public, an often-forgotten key player in the debate on
correct and proper English usage, this dissertation provides a current
perspective on attitudes towards fourteen usage problems, including literally
as an intensifier and the notorious split infinitive, in British English.
Proper English Usage investigates the impact of the social variables age,
gender, language nativeness and level of education on attitudes towards the
usage problems investigated. The results of various attitude elicitation
tests, including an online questionnaire completed by 112 respondents, have
shown that social variables such as age play a crucial role in the social
stratification of usage attitudes.

Using a mixture of different attitude elicitation techniques has shown that
both subconsciously and consciously offered attitudes need to be taken into
account in order to circumvent the issue of obtaining socially desirable
answers. Besides applying a mixed-methods approach, qualitative and
quantitative attitudinal data contribute further to a fuller picture of
current usage attitudes. A historical dimension is added to the study by
exploring the Hyper Usage Guide of English (HUGE) database, which allowed for
a systematic assessment of percept data found in advice manuals spanning 240
years. The research for Proper English Usage was carried out as part of the
‘Bridging the Unbridgeable Project: Prescriptivists, Linguists and the General
Public’ at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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