TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bex,Tony
AU  - Watts,Richard J.
TI  - Standard English: the widening debate 
SN  - 0415191637
AV  - PE1074.7. S73 1999
U1  - 428 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Standardization
KW  - Variation
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Usage
N1  - 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
ER  -