Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria 13
6. 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles 27
7. 4. Acceptability in Context 39
8. 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability 63
9. 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language 73
10. 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery 87
11. 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina 103
12. 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar 133
13. 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language 149
14. 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions 163
15. 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English 179
16. 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context 203