Standard English : the widening debate

Standard English : the widening debate / edited by Tony Bex and Richard J. Watts.

The controversy surrounding the definition of Standard English and the notion of what is correct and incorrect is the central issue debated in this volume by a cast of leading international scholars.

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Other Authors: Bex, Tony, 1943-, Watts, Richard J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
English language > Standardization.
English language > Variation > English-speaking countries.
English language > Variation > Foreign countries.
English language > Study and teaching.
English language > Variation.
English language > Usage.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
English language > Standardization
English language > Study and teaching
English language > Usage
English language > Variation
English language > Variation > Foreign countries
Standardsprache
Sprachgebrauch
Engels.
Standaardtaal.
Taalvariatie.
Engelstalige landen.
English-speaking countries
Englisch.
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Table of Contents:
  • Consequences of standardisation in descriptive linguistics / James Milroy
  • Social construction of standard English : grammar writers as a "discourse community" / Richard J. Watts
  • Typography, lexicography and the development of the idea of "standard English" / Hayley Davis
  • Representations of English in twentieth-century Britain : Fowler, Gowers and Partridge / Tony Bex
  • Standard English : what it isn't / Peter Trudgill
  • Spoken standard English / Jenny Cheshire
  • Standard grammars, spoken grammars : some educational implications / Ronald Carter
  • Standard English and language ideology in Britain and the United States / Lesley Milroy
  • Names of US English : valley girl, cowboy, yankee, normal, nasal and ignorant / Laura C. Hartley and Dennis R. Preston
  • Functions and forms of English in a European EFL country / Bent Preisler
  • Curiouser and curiouser : falling standards in the standard English debate / Tony Crowley.

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