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Publication details [#39251]

Crowley, Tony. 1987. Description or prescription? An analysis of the term ‘standard english’ in the work of two twentieth-century linguists. Language & Communication 7 (3) : 199–220.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

definition | linguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper examines the notion of 'standard English' in the work of two twentieth-century linguists.