Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: does prescriptivism fail?
- 1 Prescriptivism’s umbrella: standards, style, restoration, and political intervention
- 2 Prescriptivism’s lessons: scope and “the history of English”
- 3 Checking grammar and grammar checkers
- 4 Dictionaries and the idea of “real words”
- 5 Nonsexist language reform and its effects
- 6 Reappropriation and challenges to institutionalized prescriptivism
- 7 Finding shared ground: public conversations about prescriptivism
- References
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: does prescriptivism fail?
- 1 Prescriptivism’s umbrella: standards, style, restoration, and political intervention
- 2 Prescriptivism’s lessons: scope and “the history of English”
- 3 Checking grammar and grammar checkers
- 4 Dictionaries and the idea of “real words”
- 5 Nonsexist language reform and its effects
- 6 Reappropriation and challenges to institutionalized prescriptivism
- 7 Finding shared ground: public conversations about prescriptivism
- References
- Index
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- Fixing EnglishPrescriptivism and Language History, pp. 190 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014