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Standard English : the widening debate / edited by Tony Bex and Richard J. Watts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xi, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415191637
  • 9780415191630
  • 0415191629
  • 9780415191623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428
LOC classification:
  • PE1074.7. S73 1999
Contents:
Consequences of standardisation in descriptive linguistics / James Milroy -- Social construction of standard English : grammar writers as a "discourse community" / Richard J. Watts -- Typography, lexicography and the development of the idea of "standard English" / Hayley Davis -- Representations of English in twentieth-century Britain : Fowler, Gowers and Partridge / Tony Bex -- Standard English : what it isn't / Peter Trudgill -- Spoken standard English / Jenny Cheshire -- Standard grammars, spoken grammars : some educational implications / Ronald Carter -- Standard English and language ideology in Britain and the United States / Lesley Milroy -- Names of US English : valley girl, cowboy, yankee, normal, nasal and ignorant / Laura C. Hartley and Dennis R. Preston -- Functions and forms of English in a European EFL country / Bent Preisler -- Curiouser and curiouser : falling standards in the standard English debate / Tony Crowley.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 428 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A285151B

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

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

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