Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity

Published by Multilingual Matters 2020

Language Prescription

Values, Ideologies and Identity

Edited by: Don Chapman and Jacob D. Rawlins

In the series Multilingual Matters

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788928380

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About this book

Investigates whether we can make assumptions about people’s values from their attitudes towards one social phenomena

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism.

Author / Editor information

Chapman Don :

Don Chapman is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on the history of the English language, prescriptivism, and the intersection of those two topics.

Rawlins Jacob D. :

Jacob D. Rawlins is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on the editing and publishing profession, interactive data displays, and applied rhetorical theory.

Don Chapman is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on the history of the English language, prescriptivism, and the intersection of those two topics.

Jacob D. Rawlins is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on the editing and publishing profession, interactive data displays, and applied rhetorical theory.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1 Introduction: Values and Binaries in Language Evaluation Jacob D. Rawlins and Don Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary
2 Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, Linguistics and Standards of Language John E. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3 Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation Marla Perkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4 Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It Don Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Part 2: Prescriptivism vs Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary
5 The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism Lieselotte Anderwald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6 Examining the Split Infi nitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change Viktorija Kostadinova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
7 Language Should Be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917–2016 Marten van der Meulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8 Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania Loreta Vaicekauskienė Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity
9 ‘Good Guys’ vs ‘Bad Guys’: Constructing Linguistic Identities on the Basis of Usage Problems Carmen Ebner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
10 What Do ‘Little Aussie Sticklers’ Value Most? Alyssa A. Severin and Kate Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
11 Grammar Next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel Nola Stephens-Hecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
12 Linguistic Cleanliness is Next to Godliness – But Not for Conservative Anabaptists Kate Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Part 4 Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation
13 Fowler’s Values: Ideology and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) Giuliana Russo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14 US Copy Editors, Style Guides and Usage Guides and their Impact on British Novels Linda Pillière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
15 Practicing Prescriptivism: How Copy Editors Treat Prescriptive Rules Jonathon Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: language planning; language variation; prescriptive discourse; linguistic descriptivism; linguistic prescriptivism; language descriptivism; sociolinguistics; standardization of languages; language evaluation; language prescriptivism

eBook

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9781788928380