Standardising English : norms and margins in the history of the English language /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts
- 1. Norms and Margins of English / Diana Lewis
- 2. Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide / Sandrine Sorlin
- 3. Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation / Natalia Guermanova
- pt. II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective
- 4. Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century / Wilfrid Andrieu
- 5. End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language / Lynda Mugglestone
- 6. Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard? / Veronique Pouillon
- 7. Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED / Charlotte Brewer
- 8. Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War / Gaelle Le Corre
- 9. Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition / Viktorua Kostadinova
- pt. III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century
- 10. Grammatical Margins of Class / Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
- 11. Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People / Carmen Ebner
- 12. Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm / Sonia Dupuy
- 13. Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors / Linda Pilliere.