Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism

Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UK.Morana Lukač is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany.Robin Straaijer is an independent researcher of English language in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• ContentsList of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsLinguistic Prescriptivism: an evolving field.Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač and Robin StraaijerPART ITheoretical and methodological issuesEdited by Joan C. Beal1 Why grammars have to be normative – and prescriptivists have to be scientificGeoffrey K. Pullum2 Verbal hygieneDeborah Cameron3 Accent biasDominic Watt, Erez Levon and Christian Ilbury4 Historiographical methodsNuria Yáñez-Bouza5 Corpus-based approaches to prescriptivismBenedikt Szmrecsanyi and Dieuwertje Bloemen6 Prescription and normativity in the evolution of inner-circle EnglishesPam Peters7 The role of prescriptivism in the emergence of New EnglishesEdgar W. Schneider8 Prescriptivism and national identityStefan Dollinger9 Standards with pluricentric languagesRaymond HickeyPART IIContexts and practices of prescriptivismEdited by Robin Straaijer10 Usage guides as a text typeIngrid Teken-Boon van Ostade11 English prescriptivism in higher education contexts: focus on Nordic countriesElizabeth Petersen and Marika Hall12 Prescriptivism in education: from language ideologies to listening practicesIan Cushing and Julia Snell13 Linguistic prescriptivism as social prescription: the case of genderEvan D. Bradley14 Grassroots prescriptivismMorana Lukač and Theresa Heyd 15. Prescription and taboo: Australia’s sensitivity towards American influenceKate Burridge16 Copy editors, (not) all alike Morana Lukač and Adrian Stenton PART IIIPrescriptivism across languages and culturesEdited by Morana Lukač17 Standard language ideology and prescriptivism in the Arabic-speaking worldAndreas Hallberg18 Prescriptive language ideologies in Modern Hebrew Roey Gafter and Uri Mor19 A socio-political and historical perspective of linguistic prescriptivism in relation to African languages of South Africa Russell H Kaschula, Sebolelo Mokapela, Dion Nkomo, and Bulelwa Nosilela20 Prescriptivism in Greater China: Historical trajectories and contemporary pluricentricity Henning Klöter21 Prescriptivism and the English language in Southeast Asia Lionel Wee and Nora Samosir22 Literary norms in Russia: Past and present Arto Mustajoki23 Prescriptivism in Croatia Anđel Starčević, Mate Kapović, and Daliborka Sarić24 Prescriptivism and diglossia: How acceptable is normalized Breton to native speakers? Gary German25 Metaphor as a manifestation of prescriptivism: The case of France and Quebec Olivia Walsh and Emma Humphries26 Dutch prescriptivism in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective: Measuring the effect of institutionalized prescriptivism Eline Lismont, Rik Vosters, and Gijsbert RuttenAfterwordDavid CrystalIndex