Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space

This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Contributors
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1 - Prescription and Tradition: Establishing Standards across Time and Space
pp 1-20
- By Carol Percy, Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
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Part 1 - General and Theoretical
pp 21-22
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2 - Defining ‘Standard’: Towards a Cross-Cultural Definition of the Language Norm
pp 23-38
- By Dick Smakman, Sandra Nekesa Barasa
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3 - Prescriptivism and Writing Systems
pp 39-56
- By Florian Coulmas
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4 - ‘What is Correct Chinese?’ Revisited
pp 57-70
- By Henning Klöter
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5 - The Uselessness of the Useful: Language Standardisation and Variation in Multilingual Contexts
pp 71-87
- By Felix K. Ameka
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6 - Prescriptivism and Sociolinguistic Competence in German as a Foreign Language
pp 88-102
- By Katja Lochtman
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Part 2 - Prescription and Tradition
pp 103-104
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7 - Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of France and England
pp 105-120
- By Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
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8 - ‘A Higher Standard of Correctness than is Quite Desirable’: Linguistic Prescriptivism in Charles Dickens’s Journals
pp 121-136
- By Rita Queiroz De Barros
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9 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Competing Language Norms in the Southern Low Countries (1815−1830)
pp 137-151
- By Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters
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10 - The Syntax of Others: ‘Un-Icelandic’ Verb Placement in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Icelandic
pp 152-167
- By Heimir Van Der Feest Viðarsson
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11 - School Grammars and Language Guides: Prescriptivism in the German Language Codex in the Early 20th Century
pp 168-182
- By Dominik Banhold
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Part 3 - Usage Guides: An English Tradition
pp 183-184
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12 - A Perspective on Prescriptivism: Language in Reviews of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage
pp 185-201
- By Robin Straaijer
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13 - Which Items Need to be Standardised? Variation in the Choice of Entries in Usage Guides
pp 202-220
- By Mark Kaunisto
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14 - ‘Garnering’ Respect? The Emergence of Authority in the American Usage Tradition
pp 221-237
- By Matthijs Smits
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15 - Stalwarts, SNOOTS and Some Readers: How ‘Traditional Rules’ are Traditional
pp 238-252
- By Don Chapman
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Part 4 - Redefining Boundaries: Current Issues and Challenges
pp 253-254
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16 - ‘Goodbye, Sweet England’: Language, Nation and Normativity in Popular British News Media
pp 255-272
- By Martin Gill
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17 - Prescription and Tradition: From the French Dictionnairede L’Académie to the Official French Language Enrichment Process (1996−2014)
pp 273-287
- By Danielle Candel
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18 - Challenges in the Standardisation of Contemporary Russian
pp 288-302
- By Arto Mustajoki
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19 - Language Regimentation as Soviet Inheritance: Joining Scholarship and State Ideology
pp 303-317
- By Loreta Vaicekauskienė
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20 - Prescription and Language Management in Macedonia
pp 318-330
- By Aleksandra Gjurkova
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21 - The Standardisation Process of Frisian: A Word List as a Result
pp 331-341
- By Pieter Duijff
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22 - The Standardisation of Pronunciation: Basque Today, between Maintenance and Variation
pp 342-354
- By Miren Lourdes Oñederra
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