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Oxford English Usage Guides History Advice Attitudes 2018 Edition by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade
This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770, and the first in the US in 1847. Today, new titles come out nearly every year, while older works are revised and reissued. Remarkably, however, the kind of usage problems that have been_x000D_addressed over the years are very much the same, and attitudes towards them are slow to change - but they do change. The chapters in this book look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; how attitudes to usage change;_x000D_and why institutions such as the BBC need their own style guide. The volume will appeal not only to researchers and students in sociolinguistics, but also to general readers with an interest in questions of usage and prescriptivism, language professionals such as teachers and editors, and language policy makers._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
1: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Introduction_x000D_
2: Robin Straaijer: The usage guide: Evolution of a genre_x000D_
3: Pam Peters: The lexicography of English usage_x000D_
4: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: The King's English by Kingsley Amis: A publisher's project_x000D_
5: Rebecca Gowers: Even more complete plain words_x000D_
6: David Crystal: Punch as a satirical usage guide_x000D_
7: Morana Lukac: From usage guides to language blogs_x000D_
8: John Allen: Why does the BBC need a style guide?_x000D_
9: Carmen Ebner: Attitudes to British usage_x000D_
10: Viktorija Kostadinova: Usage problems in American English_x000D_
11: Geoffrey K. Pullum: The usage game: Catering for perverts_x000D_
References_x000D_
Index_x000D_