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New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research

Author : Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1800416164
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research written by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the practice of prescriptivism. The chapters cover three main areas: language, which represents the traditional roots of the study of linguistic norms in authoritative (historical) manuals and judgemental attitudes to language usage; literary and scripted texts, which illustrates the enregisterment of the values of linguistic prescriptivism as a social and cultural phenomenon; and speech communities, which reflects the growth in scope of the field to consider geographical contexts beyond mainstream British and American English to include varieties of English and other languages worldwide. The book also discusses recent theoretical and methodological advances in the study of prescriptivism.

Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Sven Leuckert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009323806
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century by : Sven Leuckert

Download or read book Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century written by Sven Leuckert and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English fulfils important intra- and international functions in 21st century India. However, the country's size in terms of area, population, and linguistic diversity means that completely uniform developments in Indian English (IndE) are unlikely. Using sophisticated corpus-linguistic and statistical methods, this Element explores the unity and diversity of IndE by providing studies of selected lexical and morphosyntactic features that characterise Indian English(es) in the 21st century. The findings indicate a degree of incipient 'supralocalisation', i.e. a spread of features beyond their place of origin, cutting through the typological Indo-Aryan vs. Dravidian divide.

Prescription and Tradition in Language

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783096527
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Prescription and Tradition in Language by : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Download or read book Prescription and Tradition in Language written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

Stubborn Attachments

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953352
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Stubborn Attachments written by Tyler Cowen and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bestselling author and economist, a contemporary moral case for economic growth—and a dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities. Growth is good. Through history, economic growth, in particular, has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and lengthened human lives. Wealthier societies are more stable, offer better living standards, produce better medicines, and ensure greater autonomy, greater fulfillment, and more sources of fun. If we want to continue on our trends of growth, and the overwhelmingly positive outcomes for societies that come with it, every individual must become more concerned with the welfare of those around us. So, how do we proceed? Tyler Cowen, in a culmination of 20 years of thinking and research, provides a roadmap for moving forward. In this new book, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, Cowen argues that our reason and common sense can help free us of the faulty ideas that hold us back as people and as a society. Stubborn Attachments, at its heart, makes the contemporary moral case for economic growth and delivers a great dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities. As a means of practicing the altruism that Stubborn Attachments argues for, Tyler Cowen is donating all earnings from this book to a man he met in Ethiopia earlier this year with aspirations to open his own travel business.

Doing Style

Author : Constantine V. Nakassis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022632785X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Doing Style written by Constantine V. Nakassis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing style -- Brand and brandedness -- Brandedness and the production of surfeit -- Style and the threshold of English -- Bringing the distant voice close -- College heroes and film stars -- Status through the screen -- Media's entanglements.

The Native Speaker

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853596223
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Native Speaker written by Alan Davies and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality.

What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics

Author : Martina Penke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292531
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics by : Martina Penke

Download or read book What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics written by Martina Penke and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What counts as evidence in linguistics? This question is addressed by the contributions to the present volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Studies in Language 28:3 (2004). Focusing on the innateness debate, what is illustrated is how formal and functional approaches to linguistics have different perspectives on linguistic evidence. While special emphasis is paid to the status of typological evidence and universals for the construction of Universal Grammar (UG), this volume also highlights more general issues such as the roles of (non)-standard language and historical evidence. To address the overall topic, the following three guiding questions are raised: What type of evidence can be used for innateness claims (or UG)?; What is the content of such innate features (or UG)?; and, How can UG be used as a theory guiding empirical research? A combination of articles and peer commentaries yields a lively discussion between leading representatives of formal and functional approaches.

Normalization in Translation

Author : Yun Xia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443861782
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Normalization in Translation written by Yun Xia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normalization in Translation: Corpus-based Diachronic Research into Twentieth-century English–Chinese Fictional Translation provides a comprehensive description of translation norms in two different historical contexts in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a corpus methodology, this book adopts a socio-historical approach to translation studies from a diachronic perspective, comparing translated and non-translated fictional texts from two historical periods to systematically explore the variation of normalization across time, and to highlight the social significance of translation activities by contextualizing the research results. The book includes detailed discussions of diachronic corpus construction, linguistic manifestations of normalization, changes in translation norms, and socio-cultural constraints for these changes. It expands the scope of previous studies and shows how translation studies can benefit from the use of a corpus methodology by providing an explanation, not simply a description, of how changes in translation behavior have come about. This book will be of interest to students on courses in translation and intercultural studies, as well as researchers interested in the areas of translation studies, corpus linguistics and contrastive studies of English and Chinese.

Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311021444X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Trosborg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains four sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication, covering a wide range of topics, from speech acts and politeness issues to Lingua Franca and Corporate Crises Communication. The approach is theoretical, methodological as well as applied, with a focus on authentic, interactional data. All articles are written by renowned leading specialists, who provide in-depth, up-to-date overviews, and view new directions and visions for future research.

English for the Natives

Author : Harry Ritchie
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848548389
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book English for the Natives written by Harry Ritchie and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she banged on about the ING part of the verb. I sat there, vibrating with fear, desperately trying to figure out what on earth she could mean. Irregular Negative Gerund? Intransitive Nominative Genitive? It was only years later, when I was teaching English to foreign students, that I realised that English grammar wasn't obscure and wilfully difficult but a fascinating subject which I was already brilliant at - and this book will prove that you are too.' Forget the little you think you know about English grammar and start afresh with this highly entertaining and accessible guide. English for the Natives outlines the rules and structures of our language as they are taught to foreign students - and have never before been explained to us. Harry Ritchie also examines the grammar of dialects as well as standard English and shows how non-standard forms are just as valid. With examples from a wide variety of sources, from Ali G to John Betjeman, Margaret Thatcher to Match of the Day, this essential book reveals some surprising truths about our language and teaches you all the things you didn't know you knew about grammar.

Red Horizons

Author : Ion Mihai Pacepa
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895267467
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Red Horizons written by Ion Mihai Pacepa and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1990-04-15 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service reveals the extraordinary corruption of the Nicolae Ceausescu government of Romania, its brutal machinery of oppression, and its Machiavellian relationship with the West. An in side story of how Communist Party leaders really live.

Describing Prescriptivism

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429558147
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis Describing Prescriptivism by : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Download or read book Describing Prescriptivism written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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/

Language Policy

Author : Elana Shohamy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134333528
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Language Policy written by Elana Shohamy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and covertly, across different countries and in different contexts. Concluding with arguments for a more democratic and open approach to language policy and planning, the final note is one of optimism, suggesting strategies for resistance to language attrition and ways to protect the linguistic rights of groups and individuals.

Talking Proper

Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199250618
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Talking Proper written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labor. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.

Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching 3rd edition - Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers

Author : Diane Larsen-Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0194342670
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching 3rd edition - Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers written by Diane Larsen-Freeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching has influenced the way thousands of teachers have taught English. This classic guide to developing the way you teach has been an essential resource to new and experienced teachers worldwide, and is now in its third edition. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching approach, describing it being used in the classroom, analyzing what happened, and helping you think how you could apply it to your own teaching. New features of the third edition include: a new discussion on the political dimensions of language teaching, a new digital technology chapter, and extended coverage of content-based and task-based approaches. On this site you will find additional resources, including author videos in which Diane Larsen-Freeman and Marti Anderson talk about the background to the book and new innovations in language teaching which are discussed in the third edition.

The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics

Author : Merja Kytö
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316472914
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics by : Merja Kytö

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics written by Merja Kytö and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.

Normalization in Translation

Author : Yun Xia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781443860376
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Normalization in Translation written by Yun Xia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normalization in Translation: Corpus-based Diachronic Research into Twentieth-century Englishâ "Chinese Fictional Translation provides a comprehensive description of translation norms in two different historical contexts in twentieth-century China. Drawing on a corpus methodology, this book adopts a socio-historical approach to translation studies from a diachronic perspective, comparing translated and non-translated fictional texts from two historical periods to systematically explore the variation of normalization across time, and to highlight the social significance of translation activities by contextualizing the research results. The book includes detailed discussions of diachronic corpus construction, linguistic manifestations of normalization, changes in translation norms, and socio-cultural constraints for these changes. It expands the scope of previous studies and shows how translation studies can benefit from the use of a corpus methodology by providing an explanation, not simply a description, of how changes in translation behavior have come about. This book will be of interest to students on courses in translation and intercultural studies, as well as researchers interested in the areas of translation studies, corpus linguistics and contrastive studies of English and Chinese.