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Category Archives: announcement
New “History of the English Language” published!
Congratulations, Joan Beal (editor) and Raymond Hickey (general editor)! A major new publication, up to date and with a large array of topics by established scholars on the history of the English language. This is Volume III, which consists of … Continue reading
Fowler narratives?
Next year, 2026, will be a Fowler year, just like this year is a Jane Austen year. In Henry Fowler‘s case, 100 years after the publication of his phenomenal Modern English Usage. So I’m looking for Fowler narratives, stories about … Continue reading
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New podcast: Language Law and Order
Launched today, a new podcast by Linda Pillière, Morana Lukač and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Interested in prescriptivism and all it entails? Have a listen, and let us know what you think! There’ll be much more to come.
Congratulations, Dr Stenton!
Yesterday, Adrian Stenton obtained his PhD degree from the University of Leiden. His thesis is called These Kind of Words: Number agreement in the species noun phrase in International Academic English. The thesis was published Open Access by LOT, and … Continue reading
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Soon coming out
New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research, edited by Nuria Yáñez‐Bouza, María E. Rodríguez‐Gil and Javier Pérez‐Guerra, will by published by Multilingual Matters in the Spring. Congratulations, editors! Looking forward to seeing the book in print soon! Further details here.
7th Prescriptivism conference
The seventh edition of this wonderful conference series will take place from 26 to 28 June 2024 in Aix en Provence, in France. Plenary speakers will be Ian Cushing (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Jane Hodson (University of Sheffield, UK) and … Continue reading
Soon to appear
You can pre-order now! Congratulations, Joan, Morana, Robin! Looking forward to reading it.
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Online multilingual handbook of language criticism
Focusing on German, English, French, Italian and Croatian, this multingual handbook looks extremely interesting for our field. Articles are published both in German and in the language of the field it deals with, so they should cater for interested scholars … Continue reading
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On Richard Osman and his editors
So I’ve finally read them all, all four of Richard Osman‘s The Thursday Murder Club crime novels. Not in the order in which they were published, due to their availability in our public library (so that in the end I … Continue reading →