Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History

by Anne Curzan

Book Overview

Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107020751
• ISBN13: 9781107020757
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"