Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Prescription and tradition: Establishing standards across time and space / Carol Percy and Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade -- Part 1: General and theoretical -- 2. Defining 'standard': Towards a cross-cultural definition of the language norm / Dick Smakman and Sandra Nekesa Barasa -- 3. Prescriptivism and writing systems / Florian Coulmas -- 4. 'What is correct Chinese?' revisited / Henning Klöter -- 5. The uselessness of the useful: Language standardisation and variation in multilingual contexts / Felix K. Ameka -- 6. Prescriptivism and sociolinguistic competence in German as a foreign language / Katja Lochtman -- Part 2: Prescription and tradition -- 7. Prescriptivism in a comparative perspective: The case of France and England / Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- 8. 'A higher standard of correctness than is quite desirable': Linguistic prescriptivism in Charles Dickens's journals / Rita Queiroz de Barros -- 9. Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Competing language norms in the southern low countries (1815-1830) / Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters -- 10. The syntax of others: 'Un-Icelandic' verb placement in 19th- and early 20th-century Icelandic / Heimir van der Feest Viðarsson -- 11. School grammars and language guides: Prescriptivism in the German language codex in the early 20th century / Dominik Banhold -- Part 3: Usage guides: An English tradition -- 12. A perspective on prescriptivism: Language in reviews of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage / Robin Straaijer -- 13. Which items need to be standardised? Variation in the choice of entries in usage guides / Mark Kaunisto -- 14. 'Garnering' respect? The emergence of authority in the American usage tradition / Matthijs Smits -- 15. Stalwarts, SNOOTS and some readers: How 'traditional rules' are traditional / Don Chapman -- Part 4. Redefining boundaries: Current issues and challenges -- 16. 'Goodbye, Sweet England': Language, nation, and normativity in popular British news media / Martin Gill -- 17. Prescription and tradition: From the French Dictionnaire de l'Académie to the official French language enrichment process (1996-2014) / Danielle Candel -- 18. Challenges in the standardisation of contemporary Russian / Arto Mustajoki -- 19. Language regimentation as Soviet inheritance: Joining scholarship and state ideology / Loreta Vaicekauskiene -- 20. Prescription and language management in Macedonia / Aleksandra Gjurkova -- 21. The standardisation process of Frisian: A word list as a result / Pieter Duijff -- 22. The standardisation of pronunciation: Basque today, between maintenance and variation / Miren Lourdes Oñederra -- Epilogue: On establishing the standard lanugage - and language standards / Pam Peters -- Index.

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