Standards and Norms in the English Language

von: Miriam A. Locher, Jürg Strässler

De Gruyter Mouton, 2008

ISBN: 9783110206982 , 437 Seiten

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Standards and Norms in the English Language


 

Frontmatter

1

Table of contents

23

Chapter 1 Introduction: Standards and norms

27

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 future

73

Chapter 4 The role of dialect contact in the formation of Englishes

95

Chapter 5 Non-standardisation

111

Chapter 6 From ‘standard’ to ‘nonstandard’ grammar. New England in the days of Salem Witchcraft and the Civil War

131

Chapter 7 The rise of prescriptive grammars on English in the 18th century

153

Chapter 8 Lest the situation deteriorates – A study of lest as trigger of the inflectional subjunctive

175

Chapter 9 The BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English or How (not) to construct a ‘standard’ pronunciation

201

Chapter 10 Liverpool to Louisiana in one lyrical line: Style choice in British rock, pop and folk singing

221

Chapter 11 ‘Standard’ English, discourse grammars and English language teaching

247

Chapter 12 Towards a new English as a Foreign Language curriculum for Continental Europe

265

Chapter 13 Language learning and medium of instruction: Understanding contemporary discourses and practices in Swiss schools and classrooms

281

Chapter 14 Can academic writing style be taught?

307

Chapter 15 Linguascaping Switzerland: Language ideologies in tourism

327

Chapter 16 The rules of “Denglish”

349

Chapter 17 (Im)politeness in English as Lingua Franca discourse

377

Chapter 18 How to be impolite: Rating offensive strategies

393

Backmatter

419