Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Linguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field.
Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukä 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 Lukä and Theresa Heyd
15. Prescription and taboo: Australia's sensitivity towards American influence
Kate Burridge
16 Copy editors, (not) all alike
Morana Lukä and Adrian Stenton
PART III
Prescriptivism across languages and cultures
Edited by Morana Lukä
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
An¿el Star¿evi¿, Mate Kapovi¿, and Daliborka Sari¿
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
