Publications

Publication details [#61547]

Lukač, Morana. 2016. Linguistic prescriptivism in letters to the editor. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (3) : 321–333.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience approval | language use | prescribing | press | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Exploring a corpus of 258 language-linked letters to the editor issued in the English print media, prescriptive language features and prescriptivist discourse arguments are distinguished, in the light of public criticism linked to nonstandard English varieties.