English Usage Guides History Advice Attitudes 1st edition by Ingrid Tieken Boon Van Ostade 0198808208 9780198808206

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ISBN-10 :  0198808208 

ISBN-13 :  9780198808206

Author:  Ingrid Tieken Boon Van Ostade 

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770, and the first in the US in 1847. Today, new titles come out nearly every year, while older works are revised and reissued. Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that have been addressed over the years are very much the same, and attitudes towards them are slow to change – but they do change. The chapters in this book look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; how attitudes to usage change; and why institutions such as the BBC need their own style guide. The volume will appeal not only to researchers and students in sociolinguistics, but also to general readers with an interest in questions of usage and prescriptivism, language professionals such as teachers and editors, and language policy makers.

 

English Usage Guides History Advice Attitudes 1st Table of contents:

Expand 1 IntroductionGet accessArrow

Expand 2 The usage guide: Evolution of a genreGet accessArrow

Expand 3 The lexicography of English usage: Describing usage variation and changeGet accessArrow

Expand 4 The King’s English by Kingsley Amis: A publisher’s projectGet accessArrow

Expand 5 Even more complete plain wordsGet accessArrow

Expand 6 Punch as a satirical usage guideGet accessArrow

Expand 7 From usage guides to language blogsGet accessArrow

Expand 8 Why does the BBC need a style guide?Get accessArrow
 
Expand 9 Attitudes to British usageGet accessArrow

Expand 10 Usage problems in American EnglishGet accessArrow

Expand 11 The usage game: Catering to perverts

 

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