This book examines how language ideologies are manifested in newspaper media. Using the Spanish press as a case study it considers how media discourse both from and about the Real Academia Española constitutes a set of 'language ideological debates' in which the institution repr…
by Sitta, Horst, Sieber, Peter
fromSprachlandschaft
Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with …
"Focusing on three main areas: the global spread of English; Standard English; and language and sexism, this book offers a major reappraisal of the role of language in the social world. In debate with theoretical approaches which underplay language's social function, Holborrow s…
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Covering a three hundred-year period from Locke to the present, this book demonstrates the processes by which particular forms of language (and those that use them) are validated as correct and proper and which forms are evaluated as wrong or impure.
