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Standard English : the widening debate / edited by Tony Bex and Richard J. Watts. - xi, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

Consequences of standardisation in descriptive linguistics / Social construction of standard English : grammar writers as a "discourse community" / Typography, lexicography and the development of the idea of "standard English" / Representations of English in twentieth-century Britain : Fowler, Gowers and Partridge / Standard English : what it isn't / Spoken standard English / Standard grammars, spoken grammars : some educational implications / Standard English and language ideology in Britain and the United States / Names of US English : valley girl, cowboy, yankee, normal, nasal and ignorant / Functions and forms of English in a European EFL country / Curiouser and curiouser : falling standards in the standard English debate / James Milroy -- Richard J. Watts -- Hayley Davis -- Tony Bex -- Peter Trudgill -- Jenny Cheshire -- Ronald Carter -- Lesley Milroy -- Laura C. Hartley and Dennis R. Preston -- Bent Preisler -- Tony Crowley.

ISBN: 0415191637 9780415191630 0415191629 9780415191623

LCCN: 98036167

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--Standardization
English language--Variation--English-speaking countries
English language--Variation--Foreign countries
English language--Study and teaching
English language--Variation
English language--Usage

LC Class. No.: PE1074.7. / S73 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 428