Gebundenes Buch

English Usage Guides

History, Advice, Attitudes

Herausgeber: Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, Ingrid

Beschreibung

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters 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; and how attitudes to usage have changed.

Autor

Ingrid 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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808206
• ISBN-10: 0198808208
• Artikelnr.: 48023756