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Tag Archives: prescriptivism
Latest podcast: Prescriptivism in Schools
Just this weekend, the fourth podcast in our series Language Law & Order was made available for all those (and others) interested in the subject of prescriptivism and how it pervades our daily lives. This time, we interviewed Ian Cushing … Continue reading
Subscribe to Language Law and Order!
Yesterday, we recorded the second session of our new podcast Language Law and Order. It will be published within the next few days. But if you wish to be informed of any new episodes. you may subscribe to the podcast, … Continue reading
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.
How literally should we take Dutch “letterlijk”?
The non-literal use of literally is a well-known usage problem in English, and has been discussed several times on this blog. A comparable discussion for Dutch once again hit the news, so it seems that the issue is ready to … Continue reading
Normative linguistics, 25 years on: the presentation
Those of you who are interested might like to watch our presentation during the ISLE Online Forum of 20 November, organised by Yoko Iyeiri – with great thanks to her for making it all happen. You will find the presentation … Continue reading
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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HUGE 2.0, or …?
Filled with happy academic memories of the 7th Prescriptivism Conference organised by Linda Pillière and her team at the University of Aix Marseille towards the end of last month! The papers were all very interesting, the plenarists (Nuria Yañez-Bouza, Jane … Continue reading
On who/whom in popular culture
Just out, I wrote earlier today, New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research, and in it there is an article I wrote on the exploitation of who/whom as a usage problem in popular culture: television series, films, popular novels. And here is … Continue reading
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Out now – another very interesting book on prescriptivism
Congratulations, editors Nuria Yañez-Bouza, María Esther Rodríguez-Gil and Javier Pérez-Guerra! You did a great job editing and publishing the proceedings of the 6th Prescriptivism conference held at Vigo in 2021. The book can now be ordered from Multilingual Matters, on … Continue reading
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