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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS: 170
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Values, Ideologies and Identity
Edited by
Don Chapman and
Jacob D. Rawlins
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/CHAPMA8373
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
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Names: Chapman, Don - editor. | Rawlins, Jacob D., editor.
Title: Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identities/Edited by Don Chapman and Jacob D. Rawlins.
Description: Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2020. | Series: Multilingual Matters: 170 | Includes bibliographical references and
index. | Summary: “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” — Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054094 (print) | LCCN 2019054095 (ebook) | ISBN 9781788928373 (hardback) | ISBN 9781788928380 (pdf) | ISBN 9781788928397 (epub) | ISBN 9781788928403 (kindle edition)
Subjects: LCSH: Language awareness. | Language and languages—Evaluation. | Language and languages—Study and teaching.
Classification: LCC P53.454 .V35 2020 (print) | LCC P53.454 (ebook) | DDC
418—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054094
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054095
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-837-3 (hbk)
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Contents
Contributors
1Introduction: Values and Binaries in Language Evaluation
Jacob D. Rawlins and Don Chapman
Part 1: Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary
2Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, Linguistics and Standards of Language
John E. Joseph
3Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation
Marla Perkins
4Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It
Don Chapman
Part 2: Prescriptivism vs Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary
5The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism
Lieselotte Anderwald
6Examining the Split Infinitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change
Viktorija Kostadinova
7Language Should Be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917–2016
Marten van der Meulen
8Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Loreta Vaicekauskienė
