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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39497982 Title: Standard English : the widening debate Author: Tony Bex; Richard J Watts Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0415191629 9780415191623 0415191637 9780415191630 OCLC:39497982

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Standard English : the widening debate

Author:	Tony Bex; Richard J Watts
Publisher:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	The controversy surrounding the definition of Standard English and the notion of what is correct and incorrect is the central issue debated in this volume by a cast of leading international scholars.
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ISBN:	0415191629 9780415191623 0415191637 9780415191630
OCLC Number:	39497982
Description:	xi, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Consequences of standardisation in descriptive linguistics / James Milroy -- Social construction of standard English : grammar writers as a "discourse community" / Richard J. Watts -- Typography, lexicography and the development of the idea of "standard English" / Hayley Davis -- Representations of English in twentieth-century Britain : Fowler, Gowers and Partridge / Tony Bex -- Standard English : what it isn't / Peter Trudgill -- Spoken standard English / Jenny Cheshire -- Standard grammars, spoken grammars : some educational implications / Ronald Carter -- Standard English and language ideology in Britain and the United States / Lesley Milroy -- Names of US English : valley girl, cowboy, yankee, normal, nasal and ignorant / Laura C. Hartley and Dennis R. Preston -- Functions and forms of English in a European EFL country / Bent Preisler -- Curiouser and curiouser : falling standards in the standard English debate / Tony Crowley.
Responsibility:	edited by Tony Bex and Richard J. Watts.
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This text examines late-1990s debates about the teaching of English in the school curriculum. It also looks at more general concerns about declining standards of English and places them in an Read more...

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