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Date: 19-Jul-2024
From: Holly Baker [bakerht at byu.edu]
Subject: One Hundred Years after Fowler 2024 : Scholarly Collection on Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage


CALL FOR PAPER: SCHOLARLY COLLECTION ON FOWLER’S A DICTIONARY OF
MODERN ENGLISH USAGE

One Hundred Years after Fowler

Don Chapman, PhD, and Holly Baker, PhD, editors
Brigham Young University

The year 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of H. W.
Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Accordingly, we extend
a formal call for chapter contributions to an edited collection that
we are currently developing for Oxford University Press, provisionally
titled One Hundred Years after Fowler, with an anticipated publication
date of 2026. This volume will critically examine prescriptive
discourse in the century following Fowler with an eye towards Fowler’s
influence.

Our current moment of Internet-based reference tools and emerging AI
coincides neatly with the centennial anniversary of the first edition
of Fowler’s dictionary, inviting us to consider the ways in which
prescriptive practice has changed over the last hundred years and how
trends in 20th-century prescriptive discourse continue to influence
prescriptive practice today. To that end, we invite scholars to
consider the ways in which prescriptive practice has changed since the
publication of Fowler’s Dictionary. Contributions may relate to Fowler
directly, but the real point of this volume is a retrospective on
usage guides and prescriptive discourse for the past 100 years while
also considering what comes next. Topics may include but are not
limited to the following:

• What has been the role of the dictionary-style usage guide in the
20th century? Has that role changed today? How influential were Fowler
and his successors on 20th-century prescriptive practices? What comes
next?
• How have prescriptive practices changed, especially with regard to
the rise of the reference book or how industry professionals rely on
or disregard such resources?
• How do we contextualize Fowler’s work, particularly with respect to
imperial/postcolonial/globalized English?
• What influence does Fowler have on usage advice in different English
varieties, or what tensions exist between them?
• How is Fowler received in ESL and EFL settings today? What local
responses have arisen?
• Fowler’s dictionary put a premium on style, and the twentieth
century saw the increase of casual English prose style. How have
dictionaries adapted? Similarly, how have successors also tried to
promote their favored styles?
• What is the role of Fowler in the twenty-first century? How have
usage dictionaries fared in the age of the internet, and what is the
effect of AI on usage dictionaries?
• What changes have we observed in popular prescriptivism, popular
views toward prescriptivism, or the changing attitudes toward language
rules?
• What influence has linguistics had on prescriptive discourse? To
what degree have usage guides accounted for the empirical records of
the past? How has that changed with the advent of corpus linguistics?

Submission Details

Contribution proposals of 500 to 750 words are due by September 15,
2024, in Word or PDF format to bakerht at byu.edu. Please include a
preliminary list of references and 3 to 5 keywords. We will send
decisions about proposals by October 1, 2024. We will determine the
length of final chapters based on the number of proposals accepted,
but we anticipate that they will range from 5,000 to 10,000 words.

Please address any questions to:
Don Chapman, PhD, Brigham Young University (don_chapman at byu.edu)
Holly Baker, PhD, Brigham Young University (bakerht at byu.edu)

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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