Part INorms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts

1. 1Norms and Margins of English

   Linda Pillière, Wilfrid Andrieu, Valérie Kerfelec and Diana Lewis

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

   Sandrine Sorlin

3. 3Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation

   Natalia Guermanova

Part IINorms and Margins: A Historical Perspective

1. 4Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century

   Valérie Raby and Wilfrid Andrieu

2. 5The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language

   Lynda Mugglestone

3. 6Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard?

   Véronique Pouillon

4. 7Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED

   Charlotte Brewer

5. 8Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War

   Gaëlle Le Corre

6. 9Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873–1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition

   Viktorija Kostadinova

Part IIINorms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century

1. 10The Grammatical Margins of Class

   Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

2. 11Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People

   Carmen Ebner

3. 12Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm

   Sonia Dupuy

4. 13Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors

   Linda Pillière