{"product_id":"perspectives-on-prescriptivism-9783039116324","title":"Perspectives on Prescriptivism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe colloquium \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Prescriptivism\u003c\/i\u003e (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania – Faculty of Foreign Languages – in Ragusa. Until very recently, the received view among linguists was that prescriptivism was a ‘bad thing’, something only worth considering in order to condemn it as a product of unenlightened thinking. The organisers wished to encourage participants to look at linguistic prescriptivism from a wide range of perspectives. Some of the main questions asked were: To what extent is the concept of prescriptivism to be considered a typical product of the 18th century? What is the attitude of 21st-century scholars and language guardians towards linguistic ‘correctness’? To what extent were books more prescriptive – rather than descriptive – in what has generally been described as ‘the age of correctness’? Some of the answers are to be found in this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Joan C. Beal: ‘Shamed by your English?’: the Market Value of a ‘Good’ Pronunciation – Marina Dossena: Prescriptivism a Century Ago: Business Correspondence Taught to Emigrants - A Case Study – Karlijn Navest: Ash’s \u003ci\u003eGrammatical Institutes \u003c\/i\u003eand ‘Mrs Teachwell’s Library for her young ladies’ – Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson: Phonoaesthetic Assessment of Words in 18th-century Prescriptions and Later – Carol Percy: Liberty, Sincerity, (In)accuracy: Prescriptions for \u003ci\u003eManly \u003c\/i\u003eEnglish in 18th-century Reviews and the ‘Republic of Letters’ – Laura Pinnavaia: Charles Richardson: Prescriptivist or Descriptivist? An Analysis Based on \u003ci\u003eA New Dictionary of the English Language \u003c\/i\u003e(1836-37) – Giuliana Russo: Joseph Priestley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rudiments of English Grammar; Adapted to the Use of schools. With Observations on Style \u003c\/i\u003e(1761) – Massimo Sturiale: Prescriptivism and 18th-century Bilingual Dictionaries. William Perry’s \u003ci\u003eThe Standard French and English Pronouncing Dictionary \u003c\/i\u003e(1795) – Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: The Codifiers and the History of Multiple Negation in English, or, Why Were 18th-century Grammarians So Obsessed with Double Negation? – Laura Wright: Social Attitudes Towards Londoners’ Front-glide Insertion After Velar Consonants and Before Front Vowels – Nuria Yáñez-Bouza: To End or Not to End a Sentence with a Preposition: An 18th-century Debate.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043737928023,"sku":"9783039116324","price":69.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039116324.jpg?v=1750959291","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-prescriptivism-9783039116324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}