: Miriam A. Locher, Jürg Strässler
: Standards and Norms in the English Language
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110206982
: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 204.20
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: Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 437
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This collection is dedicated to the notions of 'norms' and 'standards' in connection with the English language. Its chapters cover topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to the standard language. The notions of standards and norms are equally important concepts for historical linguists, sociolinguists with a variationist background, applied linguists, pragmaticians and discourse analysts.


Miriam A. Locher, University of Berne, Switzerland;Jürg Strässler, University of Berne/University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Frontmatter1
Table of contents23
Chapter 1 Introduction: Standards and norms27
Chapter 2 Swiss English, German English and American English: In grammatical alliance against traditional British English?49
Chapter 3 Regional variation in English in the new millennium: Looking to the future73
Chapter 4 The role of dialect contact in the formation of Englishes95
Chapter 5 Non-standardisation111
Chapter 6 From ‘standard’ to ‘nonstandard’ grammar. New England in the days of Salem Witchcraft and the Civil War131
Chapter 7 The rise of prescriptive grammars on English in the 18th century153
Chapter 8 Lest the situation deteriorates – A study of lest as trigger of the inflectional subjunctive175
Chapter 9 The BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English or How (not) to construct a ‘standard’ pronunciation201
Chapter 10 Liverpool to Louisiana in one lyrical line: Style choice in British rock, pop and folk singing221
Chapter 11 ‘Standard’ English, discourse grammars and English language teaching247
Chapter 12 Towards a new English as a Foreign Language curriculum for Continental Europe265
Chapter 13 Language learning and medium of instruction: Understanding contemporary discourses and practices in Swiss schools and classrooms281
Chapter 14 Can academic writing style be taught?307
Chapter 15 Linguascaping Switzerland: Language ideologies in tourism327
Chapter 16 The rules of “Denglish”349
Chapter 17 (Im)politeness in English as Lingua Franca discourse377
Chapter 18 How to be impolite: Rating offensive strategies393
Backmatter419