Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards Across Time and Space

This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of 'traditional' language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783096500
• ISBN13: 9781783096503
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"