| The Languages of Nation: Attitudes and Norms Contributor(s): Percy, Carol (Editor), Davidson, Mary Catherine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847697801 ISBN-13: 9781847697806 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching - Education | Educational Policy & Reform |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 2012022106 |
| Series: Multilingual Matters |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.18 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davidson, Mary Catherine: - Mary Catherine Davidson is Associate Professor of English at Glendon College, York University, Canada. Her book Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) examined multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Her current book project charts the changing status of American English in the representation and reception of dialects and second languages in Hollywood film in the 1940s and 50s. |