Standardising English

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts -- 1 Norms and Margins of English -- 2 Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide -- 3 Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation -- Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective -- 4 Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century -- 5 The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language -- 6 Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard? -- 7 Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED -- 8 Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War -- 9 Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition -- Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century -- 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class -- 11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People -- 12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm -- 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors -- Author Index -- Subject Index