35.3167, Books: These Kind of Words: Stenton (2024)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3167. Mon Nov 11 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.3167, Books: These Kind of Words: Stenton (2024)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Joel Jenkins, Daniel Swanson, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Joel Jenkins <joel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 25-Oct-2024
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: These Kind of Words: Stenton (2024)


Title: These kind of words
Subtitle: Number agreement in the species noun phrase in International
Academic English
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0675

Author: Adrian Stenton
Paperback: ISBN: 978-94-6093-460-5 Pages: 326 Price: Europe EURO 40,00
Abstract:

This study examines a single English language usage problem, the use
of number agreement in the variant forms of the species noun phrase –
e.g. this kind of error vs. these kinds of errors vs. these kind of
errors vs. errors of this kind – from three different perspectives:
those of linguists, prescriptivists and the general public. The study,
framed by the descriptions given in modern reference grammars and
theoretical analyses (the linguists), is conducted within the
historical perspective of the advice given in English usage guides
published between 1770 and 2010 and beyond (the prescriptivists). The
general public is given a voice in the form of an online survey of
attitudes to the variant forms the species noun phrase may take, and
by an analysis of a corpus of un-copy-edited academic writing that was
compiled specifically for this study.

The main findings of the study are (i) that there is a great deal of
harmony between the views of the three groups studied, and that, on
the basis of this three-pronged analysis, the popular view of
'descriptive' linguists in conflict with 'prescriptive' usage guides
is not justified; and (ii) that the innovative use of multiple
contextualised examples in the attitude survey contributes to the
suggestion of 'gradience' or a 'cline of acceptability' on the part of
the general public, rather than a simple 'acceptable' vs.
'unacceptable' stance.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): English

Written In: English (eng)



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List to support the student editors:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Edinburgh University Press https://edinburghuniversitypress.com

Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3167
----------------------------------------------------------