Prescription and Tradition in Language
Prescription and Tradition in Language

Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2016-11-14

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1783096527

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This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

Language Prescription
Language Prescription

Author: Prof. Don Chapman

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1788928385

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This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

Authority in Language
Authority in Language

Author: Lesley Milroy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1134687583

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This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.

Language Prescription
Language Prescription

Author: Don Chapman

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1788928393

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This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

Language Between Description and Prescription
Language Between Description and Prescription

Author: Lieselotte Anderwald

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190270675

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Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized. The book also demonstrates that though grammars were prescriptivist, their effect was at best minimal.

Medicating Modern America
Medicating Modern America

Author: Andrea Tone

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2007-01-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0814783015

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With Americans paying more than $200 billion each year for prescription pills, the pharmaceutical business is the most profitable in the nation. The popularity of prescription drugs in recent decades has remade the doctor/patient relationship, instituting prescription-writing and pill-taking as an integral part of medical practice and everyday life. Medicating Modern America examines the meanings behind this pharmaceutical revolution through the interconnected histories of eight of the most influential and important drugs: antibiotics, mood stabilizers, hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, stimulants, statins, and Viagra. All of these drugs have been popular, profitable, influential, and controversial, and the authors take a historical approach to studying their development, prescription, and consumption. This perspective locates the histories of prescription medicines in specific cultural contexts while revealing the extent to which contemporary debates about pharmaceutical drugs echo concerns voiced by Americans in the past. Exploring the rich and multi-faceted history of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, Medicating Modern America unveils the untold stories behind America's pharmaceutical obsession. Contributors include: Robert Bud, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jeremy A. Greene, David Healy, Suzanne White Junod, Ilina Singh, Andrea Tone, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins.

British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing

Author: L. Paterson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-07-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137332721

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This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English. The analysis is framed by a consideration of language-internal factors, such as syntactic agreement, and language-external factors, which include traditional grammatical prescriptivism and the language reforms resulting from second-wave feminism.

Fixing English
Fixing English

Author: Anne Curzan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1107020751

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Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.

Practical Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Practical Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Yan Wu

Publisher: Paradigm Publications

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 9780912111391

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The authors look at TCM treatments for a wide range of common & more difficult problems, such as: eczema; gangrene; depressions; palpitations; & many more. Material is structured in such a way as to be easily accessed in clinical situations

Aristotle on Prescription
Aristotle on Prescription

Author: Francesca Alesse

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9004385398

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The focus of Aristotle on Prescription is Aristotle’s reflections on rule-making. It is widely believed that Aristotle was only concerned with decision-making, understood as a deliberative process enabling a person to arrive at particular, contingent decisions. However, rule-making is fundamental to Aristotle’s ethical texts. Establishing rules means indicating patterns for action that are sufficiently specific to meet situational difficulties and sufficiently constant in time to provide us with a code of behaviour to be used in similar situations. When we prescribe rules, we demonstrate the ability to direct not only our own life but also other people’s lives. Alesse’s book explores Aristotle’s deep reflections on the nature and functions of prescription, and on the relationship between rules and individual decisions.