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The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820-1970.
The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source, nature, and operation of the prescriptive attitude, bu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1977.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of linguistics ;
v. 13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source, nature, and operation of the prescriptive attitude, but also to examine it in the light of what Einar Haugen (1972) has called the 'ecology of language', that is, the relationship between language attitudes and other social and cultural behavior. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (140 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027281432 9027281432 1283314509 9781283314503 9786613314505 6613314501 |