The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism

ISBN 10: 036755786X ISBN 13: 9780367557867

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism. It covers:

• Theoretical and methodological approaches – from historical to experimental approaches and including corpus-based methods and attitudes research;

• Contexts in which prescriptive efforts can be both observed and studied – including education, technology, the media, language planning and policies, and everyday grassroots practices;

• Geographical contexts of prescriptivism – featuring chapters on inner- and outer-circle Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, as well as prescriptivism in the context of other world languages including minority and endangered languages.

With contributions from an international line-up of leading and rising-star scholars in the field, The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism marks the evolution of linguistics as a fully self- aware discipline and will be an indispensable guide for students and researchers in this area.

About this title

About the Author

Joan C. Beal is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Morana Lukač is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany.

Robin Straaijer is an independent researcher of English language in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036755786X
• ISBN 13: 9780367557867
• Binding: Versión Kindle
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 490
• Editor: Beal Joan C., Lukač Morana, Straaijer Robin