New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research
New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research
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Description
The chapters in this book address three main strands in ongoing scholarly work on prescriptivism: language, literary and scripted texts, and speech communities. Collectively, the chapters contextualise the role of prescriptivism in history as well as at the present time.
This important volume showcases prescriptivism in diverse linguistic, historical and sociocultural settings. Normative attitudes and practices are integral to people’s linguistic behaviour, and this book puts a powerful spotlight on the need to balance prescriptive and descriptive perspectives – without this marriage of opposites, we cannot hope to understand the complex and dynamic nature of human language.
Embark on a captivating journey into prescriptivism research with this insightful volume. Seamlessly integrating compelling case studies from diverse languages and varieties into thematic strands, the book not only celebrates the field's richness but also underscores its mature evolution, unveiling enticing avenues for future exploration.
This fascinating collection demonstrates the complexity of prescriptivism as a cultural and linguistic phenomenon in settings ranging from dating apps to movie scripts and from 16th-century English poetics to the 21st-century Greek spelling of coronavirus. The authors deploy sophisticated methods and raise new questions that stimulate thought beyond the binary of prescriptivism vs. descriptivism.
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is Senior Lecturer at the University of Vigo, Spain and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in historical sociolinguistics with a focus on the relationship between norms and usage in the 18th century. She has also been actively involved in the field of Digital Humanities with the compilation of corpora and electronic databases.
María E. Rodríguez-Gil is Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Her research expertise lies in the field of the 18th-century grammatical tradition, the relationship between prescriptivism and descriptivism, and the history of the teaching of English to a native and non-native audience.
Javier Pérez-Guerra is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Spain. His areas of specialisation are information packaging in the clause, multidimensional approaches to register variation as applied to earlier periods of English, the study of grammatical variation between modern and Present-day English from corpus-based empirical perspectives, and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.