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- Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 0367207184
- ISBN-13: 9780367207182
- Format: 15.5 x 23.9 x 2 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring:
- a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years;
- an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database - developed specifically to enable this line of study - as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC;
- a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project's blog.*
With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics.
*Found at https: //bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
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- Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN-10: 0367207184
- ISBN-13: 9780367207182
- Format: 15.5 x 23.9 x 2 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring:
- a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years;
- an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database - developed specifically to enable this line of study - as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC;
- a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project's blog.*
With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics.
*Found at https: //bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
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