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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters 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; and how attitudes to usage have changed.
Cover -- English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 2: The usage guide: Evolution of a genre -- 2.1 Introduction: what makes a usage guide? -- 2.1.1 Definitions of the usage guide -- 2.1.2 Circumnavigating the genre -- 2.1.3 A bottom-up definition -- 2.2 Historical development -- 2.2.1 Eighteenth-century precursors and beginnings -- 2.2.2 Nineteenth-century development and polemics -- 2.2.3 Early to mid-twentieth-century maturation and Fowler
2.2.4 Late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century professionalization and entertainment2.3 Formal features of usage guides -- 2.3.1 The arrangement of usage guides -- 2.3.2 The usage problems discussed in usage guides -- 2.3.3 Comprehensiveness -- 2.4 Conclusions -- 3: The lexicography of English usage: Describing usage variation and change -- 3.1 Introduction: usage guides, dictionaries and lexicography -- 3.2 The usage writing tradition in the twentieth century -- 3.2.1 Conservative language preferences -- 3.2.2 Synchronic assumption: the infinite present
3.2.3 Authority in individual or collective authorship3.2.4 Language evidence and uses of it -- 3.3 New developments in the lexicography of usage in the early twenty-first century -- 3.3.1 GarnerÂś Modern American Usage (third edition, 2009) -- 3.3.2 GarnerÂś Language-Change Index (LCI) -- 3.3.3 Empirical models for the diffusion of language change -- 3.4 The GloWbE corpus and its applications -- 3.5 GloWbE analytics on the assimilation of Latin loanwords -- 3.5.1 Latin loanwords in twentieth-century English
3.5.2 Data with singular and plural determiners in regional Englishes3.5.3 Data construed with singular and plural forms of be, have, and do in regional Englishes -- 3.5.4 Data as singular and plural in different kinds of discourse -- 3.6 The lexicography of usage in the digital age -- 4: The KingÂś English by Kingsley Amis: A publisherÂś project -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 AmisÂś interest in language -- 4.3 Writing The KingÂś English -- 4.4 The KingÂś English as a usage guide -- 4.5 Selecting usage problems for The KingÂś English -- 4.6 Amis and Fowler
4.7 Conclusion5: Even more complete plain words -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The principles behind the fourth edition -- 5.3 Modernizing the text -- 5.4 Further editorial quandaries -- 5.5 In conclusion -- 6: Punch as a satirical usage guide -- 7: From usage guides to language blogs -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The popularity of grammar blogs -- 7.3 Grammar Girl as a usage guide 2.0 -- 7.4 Comments on the Grammar Girl website -- 7.4.1 The commentersÂ ́identity construction -- 7.4.2 Types of comments -- 7.4.3 Arguments presented in metalinguistic debates
""7.4.4 Repetitive narratives and humour in metalinguistic discourses""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English Usage Guides : History, Advice, Attitudes