Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1 Prescriptivism in Language, Literary Texts and Speech Communities 1
5. Part 1: Prescriptivism in Language Norms
6. 2 ‘One of the commonest faults of even well-bred people’? Attitudes towards Post-vocalic /r/-absence, /h/-dropping and /h/-insertion in 19th-Century English Grammars 23
7. 3 ‘Your not my type’: Effects of Stigmatised Linguistic Variation in Online Dating 46
8. 4 Bad Grammar and Metalinguistic Awareness 61
9. Part 2: Prescriptivism in Literary and Scripted Texts
10. 5 Poetry’s for Kings: Prescriptivism and Resistance in English Poetry 85
11. 6 The Significance of Stance in Fictional Representations of Non-Standard Language and Prescriptivism 103
12. 7 Breaking the Who/Whom Rule: The Final Taboo? 120
13. 8 Evaluating the Standardising Influence of the Copy Editor: A Qualitative Study 137
14. Part 3: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities I: Varieties of English
15. 9 ‘He speak very careful English’: A View on Prescriptivism in Two Outer-Circle Varieties of English 161
16. 10 Indian English Usage in the 21st Century: Enduring Colonial Norms and Emerging Local Standards 186
17. 11 ‘Cahstle, (…) not kehstle’: Reflections of Prescriptivism in Australian Literature 214
18. Part 4: Prescriptivism in Speech Communities II: Beyond English-Speaking Communities
19. 12 Towards Modelling Past and Present Effects of Prescriptivism: Icelandic 19th- and 21st-Century Student Essays 237
20. 13 Prescriptivism and Variation: The Greek Word for ‘Coronavirus’ 266
21. 14 Suppressed No More: Prescriptivism and the Evaluation of Optional Variability 296
22. Index 319