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Describing Prescriptivism - Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English (Hardcover)
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Describing Prescriptivism - Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English (Hardcover)
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Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking
analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American
English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective.
Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a
three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic,
featuring: a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides
over the years; an authoritative comparison of this advice with
actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including
the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database - developed
specifically to enable this line of study - as well as more
mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC; a close analysis
of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general
public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging
the Unbridgeable" research project's blog.* With extensive case
studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this
comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of
prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics. *Found
at https://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
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