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English Usage Guides - History, Advice, Attitudes (Hardcover)
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English Usage Guides - History, Advice, Attitudes (Hardcover)
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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English
usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long
history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the
best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK
in 1770, and the first in the US in 1847. Today, new titles come
out nearly every year, while older works are revised and reissued.
Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that have been
addressed over the years are very much the same, and attitudes
towards them are slow to change - but they do change. The chapters
in this book look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by
whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from
grammars and dictionaries; how attitudes to usage change; and why
institutions such as the BBC need their own style guide. The volume
will appeal not only to researchers and students in
sociolinguistics, but also to general readers with an interest in
questions of usage and prescriptivism, language professionals such
as teachers and editors, and language policy makers.
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