Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics [electronic resource] /
Armstrong, N.author.
Mackenzie, I.author.
The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization.
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Cover; Contents; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; The issues studied in this book; Standardization and the linguist; Structure of the book; Notes to Introduction; 1 The nature of the standard; 1.1 The standard as an ideology; 1.2 The socially dominant variety; 1.3 The synecdochic variety; 1.4 The standard overlying the vernacular; 1.5 The standard as supralocal; 1.6 Folk-linguistic judgments; 1.7 The role of ideology; 1.8 Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 1; 2 Grammaticality; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Grammaticality by fiat; 2.3 Case study 1: impersonal se/si in Romance
2.4 Case study 2: long wh extraction2.5 Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 2; 3 Prestige speech patterns; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Hypercorrection in pronunciation; 3.3 Grammatical viruses; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Anatomy of a virus; 3.3.3 Viral case studies; 3.4 Conclusion: viruses and ideology; Notes to Chapter 3; 4 Language change; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Two dogmas of standardization; 4.3 The illusion of systemic change; 4.4 Motivations of linguistic change; 4.4.1 Introduction; 4.4.2 Mechanisms governing the construction of social identity; 4.4.3 Acts of identity, prestige
4.4.4 Conclusion to Section 4.44.5 Case studies in language change; 4.5.1 /o/-fronting in French; 4.5.2 Variable negation; 4.5.3 Variable wh interrogatives; 4.6 Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 4; 5 Social levelling, or anti-standardization; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Contextualizing the debate; 5.2.1 Methodological limitations; 5.2.2 Postmodernism and the cultural turn; 5.3 Levelling as a social phenomenon; 5.3.1 Studies of social levelling; 5.3.2 The timescale of social levelling; 5.3.3 Economic influences on socio-cultural behaviour: real or symbolic levelling?
5.3.4 Other expressions of social levelling5.3.5 Conclusion to Section 5.3; 5.4 Linguistic manifestations: the erosion of the standard; 5.4.1 Horizontal dialect levelling in UK English; 5.4.2 Vertical dialect levelling in UK English; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 5; 6 Away from the Anglo-Saxon model: the case of French; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Cultural conservatism; 6.3 The ideology of French; 6.3.1 Introduction; 6.3.2 Homogenization in French pronunciation; 6.3.3 Variation in French grammar; 6.3.4 Style variation in French; 6.3.5 Diversity in French; 6.4 Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 6
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The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphology.
Communication.
Historical linguistics.
Discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Philosophy of Language.
Morphology.
Communication Studies.
Historical Linguistics.
Discourse Analysis.