Publications

Publication details [#39539]

Myhill, John. 2004. A parameterized view of the concept of ‘correctness’. Multilingua 23 (4) : 389–416.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correctness | language status | social status

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article proposes a descriptive framework for language categorization, acccording to a number of different parameters of ‘correctness’, so that correctness is no longer solely linked to the (normative) language spoken by speakers with the highest social prestige.