Standardising English - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures, Maps and Tables

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

Part I - Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts

pp 1-62

1 - Norms and Margins of English

pp 3-21

2 - Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide

pp 22-42

3 - Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation

pp 43-62

Part II - Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective

pp 63-190

4 - Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century

pp 65-88

5 - The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language

pp 89-105

6 - Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard?

pp 106-126

7 - Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED

pp 127-143

8 - Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War

pp 144-170

9 - Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873–1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition

pp 171-190

Part III - Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century

pp 191-276

10 - The Grammatical Margins of Class

pp 193-212

11 - Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People

pp 213-233

12 - Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm

pp 234-250

13 - Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors

pp 251-276

Author Index

pp 277-281

Subject Index

pp 282-286