1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism. It covers:
• Theoretical and methodological approaches – from historical to experimental approaches and including corpus-based methods and attitudes research;
• Contexts in which prescriptive efforts can be both observed and studied – including education, technology, the media, language planning and policies, and everyday grassroots practices;
• Geographical contexts of prescriptivism – featuring chapters on inner- and outer-circle Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, as well as prescriptivism in the context of other world languages including minority and endangered languages.
With contributions from an international line-up of leading and rising-star scholars in the field, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism marks the evolution of linguistics as a fully self- aware discipline and will be an indispensable guide for students and researchers in this area.
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Linguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field.
Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač and Robin Straaijer
PART I
Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Joan C. Beal
1 Why grammars have to be normative – and prescriptivists have to be scientific
Geoffrey K. Pullum
2 Verbal hygiene
Deborah Cameron
3 Accent bias
Dominic Watt, Erez Levon and Christian Ilbury
4 Historiographical methods
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
5 Corpus-based approaches to prescriptivism
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Dieuwertje Bloemen
6 Prescription and normativity in the evolution of inner-circle Englishes
Pam Peters
7 The role of prescriptivism in the emergence of New Englishes
Edgar W. Schneider
8 Prescriptivism and national identity
Stefan Dollinger
9 Standards with pluricentric languages
Raymond Hickey
PART II
Contexts and practices of prescriptivism
Edited by Robin Straaijer
10 Usage guides as a text type
Ingrid Teken-Boon van Ostade
11 English prescriptivism in higher education contexts: focus on Nordic countries
Elizabeth Petersen and Marika Hall
12 Prescriptivism in education: from language ideologies to listening practices
Ian Cushing and Julia Snell
13 Linguistic prescriptivism as social prescription: the case of gender
Evan D. Bradley
14 Grassroots prescriptivism
Morana Lukač and Theresa Heyd
15. Prescription and taboo: Australia’s sensitivity towards American influence
Kate Burridge
16 Copy editors, (not) all alike
Morana Lukač and Adrian Stenton
PART III
Prescriptivism across languages and cultures
Edited by Morana Lukač
17 Standard language ideology and prescriptivism in the Arabic-speaking world
Andreas Hallberg
18 Prescriptive language ideologies in Modern Hebrew
Roey Gafter and Uri Mor
19 A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to African languages of South Africa
Russell H Kaschula, Sebolelo Mokapela, Dion Nkomo, and Bulelwa Nosilela
20 Prescriptivism in Greater China: Historical trajectories and contemporary pluricentricity Henning Klöter
21 Prescriptivism and the English language in Southeast Asia
Lionel Wee and Nora Samosir
22 Literary norms in Russia: Past and present
Arto Mustajoki
23 Prescriptivism in Croatia
Anđel Starčević, Mate Kapović, and Daliborka Sarić
24 Prescriptivism and diglossia: How acceptable is normalized Breton to native speakers? Gary German
25 Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: The case of France and Quebec
Olivia Walsh and Emma Humphries
26 Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective: Measuring the effect of institutionalized prescriptivism
Eline Lismont, Rik Vosters, and Gijsbert Rutten
Afterword
David Crystal
Index
Biography
Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Morana Lukač is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany.
Robin Straaijer is an independent researcher of English language in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
