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Standard English : the widening debate /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bex, Tony, 1943-, Watts, Richard J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.