New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80041-614-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the practice of prescriptivism. The chapters cover three main areas: language, which represents the traditional roots of the study of linguistic norms in authoritative (historical) manuals and judgemental attitudes to language usage; literary and scripted texts, which illustrates the enregisterment of the values of linguistic prescriptivism as a social and cultural phenomenon; and speech communities, which reflects the growth in scope of the field to consider geographical contexts beyond mainstream British and American English to include varieties of English and other languages worldwide. The book also discusses recent theoretical and methodological advances in the study of prescriptivism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yáñez¿Bouza, Nuria

Rodríguez¿Gil, María E.

Pérez¿Guerra, Javier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Chapter 1. Nuria Yáñez-Bouza: Prescriptivism in Language, Literary Texts and Speech Communities

Part 1: Prescriptivism in Language Norms

Chapter 2. Marco Wiemann: 'One of the commonest faults of even well-bred people'? Attitudes towards Post-vocalic /r/-absence, /h/-dropping and /h/-insertion in 19th-Century English Grammars

Chapter 3. Carmen Ebner-Mosely: 'Your not my type': Effects of Stigmatised Linguistic Variation in Online Dating

Chapter 4. Anja Wanner and Difei (Lynn) Zhang: Bad Grammar and Metalinguistic Awareness

Part 2: Prescriptivism in Literary and Scripted Texts

Chapter 5. Joan C. Beal: Poetry’s for Kings: Prescriptivism and Resistance in English Poetry

Chapter 6. Jane Hodson: The Significance of Stance in Fictional Representations of Non-Standard Language and Prescriptivism

Chapter 7. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Breaking the Who/Whom Rule: The Final Taboo?

Chapter 8. Linda Pillière: Evaluating the Standardising Influence of the Copy Editor: A Qualitative Study

Part 3: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities I: Varieties of English

Chapter 9. Lucía Loureiro-Porto: 'He speak very careful English': A View on Prescriptivism in Two Outer-Circle Varieties of English

Chapter 10. Kranti Doibale, Sachin Labade and Claudia Lange: Indian English Usage in the 21st Century: Enduring Colonial Norms and Emerging Local Standards

Chapter 11. Magdalena Císlerová: 'Cahstle, (…) not kehstle': Reflections of Prescriptivism in Australian Literature

Part 4: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities II: Beyond English Speaking Communities

Chapter 12. Heimir F. Viðarsson: Towards Modelling Past and Present Effects of Prescriptivism: Icelandic 19th- and 21st-Century Student Essays

Chapter 13. Spiros A. Moschonas, Costas Mourlas and Thodoris Paraskevas: Prescriptivism and Variation: The Greek Word for 'Coronavirus'

Chapter 14. Machteld de Vos and Marten van der Meulen: Suppressed No More: Prescriptivism and the Evaluation of Optional Variability

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yáñez¿Bouza, Nuria
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in historical sociolinguistics with a focus on the relationship between norms and usage in the 18th century.

Pérez¿Guerra, Javier
Javier Pérez-Guerra is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Spain. His areas of specialisation are information packaging in the clause, multidimensional approaches to register variation as applied to earlier periods of English, the study of grammatical variation between modern and Present-day English from corpus-based empirical perspectives, and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.

Rodríguez¿Gil, María E.
María E. Rodríguez-Gil is Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Her research expertise lies in the field of the 18th-century grammatical tradition, the relationship between prescriptivism and descriptivism, and the history of the teaching of English to a native and non-native audience.

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in historical sociolinguistics with a focus on the relationship between norms and usage in the 18th century. She has also been actively involved in the field of Digital Humanities with the compilation of corpora and electronic databases.

María E. Rodríguez-Gil is Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Her research expertise lies in the field of the 18th-century grammatical tradition, the relationship between prescriptivism and descriptivism, and the history of the teaching of English to a native and non-native audience.

Javier Pérez-Guerra is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Spain. His areas of specialisation are information packaging in the clause, multidimensional approaches to register variation as applied to earlier periods of English, the study of grammatical variation between modern and Present-day English from corpus-based empirical perspectives, and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.