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Proper English (Hardcover, New)
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Proper English (Hardcover, New)
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The texts in this book have been selected to illustrate the process
by which particular forms of English usage are erected and
validated as correct and standard. At the same time, the texts
demonstrate how a certain group of people, and certain sets of
cultural practices are privileged as correct, standard and central.
Covering a period of 300 years, these writers, who include Locke,
Swift, Webster, James, Newbolt and Marenbon, consider the questions
of language change and decay, correct and incorrect usage and what
to prescribe and proscribe. Reread in the light of recent debates
about cultural identity - how is it constructed and maintained?
what are its effects? - these texts attempt to demonstrate the
formative roles of race, class and gender in the construction of
"proper Englishness". This book should be of interest to students
and teachers of English studies and language and linguistics
including discourse theory and the history of language.
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