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Soon coming out

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Ingrid Tieken

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.

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7th Prescriptivism conference

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

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Soon to appear

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Ingrid Tieken

You can pre-order now! Congratulations, Joan, Morana, Robin! Looking forward to reading it.

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Online multilingual handbook of language criticism

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Ingrid Tieken

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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Back online

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Ingrid Tieken

Harry Ritchie’s website with his two freely available usage guides is once again up and rolling. You’ll find it – and them – here. Do let us know what you think of it.

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Usage guides and the complaint tradition

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Ingrid Tieken

If you wish to attend this presentation, on Wednesday 27 April at 2 pm (CET), here is the zoomlink: https://uni-due.zoom.us/j/66210477258?pwd=R0ZOc1RNTXcvUkxuYUVsNXlCSWFiZz09. We hope to see many of you there. And if students need a certificate of attendance, the organisers will will … Continue reading →

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UniSIG: Copy-editorial decision-making strategies

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Ingrid Tieken

Morana Lukaç and Adrian Stenton will be presenting a study of copy-editors they conducted in 2020 to members of SENSE, the society of English-language professionals in the Netherlands. They’re looking forward to to sharing insights of a study with the … Continue reading →

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A very timely piece on Dutch “literally”

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Ingrid Tieken

Thank you, Ewoud Sanders, for choosing to write on Dutch literally just this weekend. A very welcome piece for my comparative paper on the English, Dutch and German usage guide traditions later this week. We’ve written on this topic (from … Continue reading →

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The project continues …

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

The Bridging the Unbridgeable project officially ended nearly five years ago, but almost all of us are presenting a paper at the next Prescriptivism Conference, held online (no fee!) at the University of Vigo from 23 – 25 September 2021. … Continue reading →

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Another major publication on prescriptivism

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Ingrid Tieken

The Bridging the Unbridgeable project may be officially closed, publications by its members continue to appear. Just now, my copy of Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity landed on our doormat, edited by Don Chapman and Jacob Rawlins. It includes … Continue reading →

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