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OverviewThis volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770, and the first in the US in 1847. Today, new titles come out nearly every year, while older works are revised and reissued. Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that have been addressed over the years are very much the same, and attitudes towards them are slow to change - but they do change. The chapters in this book look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; how attitudes to usage change; and why institutions such as the BBC need their own style guide. The volume will appeal not only to researchers and students in sociolinguistics, but also to general readers with an interest in questions of usage and prescriptivism, language professionals such as teachers and editors, and language policy makers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Professor of English Sociohistorical Linguistics, Professor of English Sociohistorical Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9780198808206ISBN 10: 0198808208 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 16 November 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Introduction 2: Robin Straaijer: The usage guide: Evolution of a genre 3: Pam Peters: The lexicography of English usage 4: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: The King's English by Kingsley Amis: A publisher's project 5: Rebecca Gowers: Even more complete plain words 6: David Crystal: Punch as a satirical usage guide 7: Morana Lukač: From usage guides to language blogs 8: John Allen: Why does the BBC need a style guide? 9: Carmen Ebner: Attitudes to British usage 10: Viktorija Kostadinova: Usage problems in American English 11: Geoffrey K. Pullum: The usage game: Catering for perverts References IndexReviewsIn sum, these essays portray both the current obsession with usage guides and the ultimate futility of trying to police language usage. Accessible surveys, charts, and graphs appear throughout ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Author InformationIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and has a chair in English Sociohistorical Linguistics at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests include the final stages of English standardization - the codification of grammar and the rise and spread of prescriptivism - and the question of how grammar rules relate to actual usage. Her published work includes An Introduction to Late Modern English (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and, with OUP, The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism (2011) and In Search of Jane Austen: The Language of the Letters (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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