Describing Prescriptivism av Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

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<P><EM>Describing Prescriptivism</EM> provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring: </P><P></P><UL><P><LI>a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years;</LI><P></P></UL><UL><P><LI>an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database ¿ developed specifically to enable this line of study ¿ as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC;</LI><P></P></UL><UL><P><LI>a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project¿s blog.*</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>With