Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism

Contents

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Linguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field.

Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukac and Robin Straaijer

PART I

Theoretical and methodological issues

Edited by Joan C. Beal

1 Why grammars have to be normative - and prescriptivists have to be scientific

Geoffrey K. Pullum

2 Verbal hygiene

Deborah Cameron

3 Accent bias

Dominic Watt, Erez Levon and Christian Ilbury

4 Historiographical methods

Nuria Yanez-Bouza

5 Corpus-based approaches to prescriptivism

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Dieuwertje Bloemen

6 Prescription and normativity in the evolution of inner-circle Englishes

Pam Peters

7 The role of prescriptivism in the emergence of New Englishes

Edgar W. Schneider

8 Prescriptivism and national identity

Stefan Dollinger

9 Standards with pluricentric languages

Raymond Hickey

PART II

Contexts and practices of prescriptivism

Edited by Robin Straaijer

10 Usage guides as a text type

Ingrid Teken-Boon van Ostade

11 English prescriptivism in higher education contexts: focus on Nordic countries

Elizabeth Petersen and Marika Hall

12 Prescriptivism in education: from language ideologies to listening practices

Ian Cushing and Julia Snell

13 Linguistic prescriptivism as social prescription: the case of gender

Evan D. Bradley

14 Grassroots prescriptivism

Morana Lukac and Theresa Heyd

15. Prescription and taboo: Australia's sensitivity towards American influence

Kate Burridge

16 Copy editors, (not) all alike

Morana Lukac and Adrian Stenton

PART III

Prescriptivism across languages and cultures

Edited by Morana Lukac

17 Standard language ideology and prescriptivism in the Arabic-speaking world

Andreas Hallberg

18 Prescriptive language ideologies in Modern Hebrew

Roey Gafter and Uri Mor

19 A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to African languages of South Africa

Russell H Kaschula, Sebolelo Mokapela, Dion Nkomo, and Bulelwa Nosilela

20 Prescriptivism in Greater China: Historical trajectories and contemporary pluricentricity Henning Kloeter

21 Prescriptivism and the English language in Southeast Asia

Lionel Wee and Nora Samosir

22 Literary norms in Russia: Past and present

Arto Mustajoki

23 Prescriptivism in Croatia

Andel Starcevic, Mate Kapovic, and Daliborka Saric

24 Prescriptivism and diglossia: How acceptable is normalized Breton to native speakers? Gary German

25 Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: The case of France and Quebec

Olivia Walsh and Emma Humphries

26 Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective: Measuring the effect of institutionalized prescriptivism

Eline Lismont, Rik Vosters, and Gijsbert Rutten

Afterword

David Crystal

Index

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• Literatura: história e crítica
• Idioma: história e obras gerais
• Linguística histórica e comparativa
• Sociolinguística

sociolinguistic methodology;language standardisation;educational language policy;corpus linguistics analysis;language attitudes research;minority language preservation;prescriptive language norms in global contexts