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Language Prescription : Values, Ideologies and Identity - Don Chapman

Language Prescription

Values, Ideologies and Identity

By: Don Chapman (Editor), Jacob D. Rawlins (Editor)

Hardcover | 21 September 2020

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This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

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In this useful and illuminating collection, contributors methodically demonstrate whether specific norms affect language change and how prescriptive attitudes index group or individual identities-multilingual, postcolonial, national, religious, professional. Indeed, linguists should be led to question their identification with 'descriptivism', as binaries like 'descriptive vs prescriptive' are examined and dismantled.

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