Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Contributors xiii
5. 1. Introduction: Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives on ‘Patriotic’ Prescriptivism 1
6. 2. Foreword: Language, Prescriptivism, Nationalism – and Identity 11
7. Part 1: Managing Language Policies
8. 3. William Cecil and the Rectification of English 39
9. 4. Prescribing Pastoral and Pragmatic Orientations: Challenges for Language Policy 63
10. Part 2: Colonialism and Literary Canons
11. 5. Mutual Preservation of Standard Language and National Identity in Early Modern Wales 83
12. 6. ‘A Highly Poetical Language’? Scots, Burns, Patriotism and Evaluative Language in 19th-century Literary Reviews and Articles 99
13. Part 3: Transmarine and Transatlantic Allegiances
14. 7. Language and National Identity in 17th- and 18th-century England 123
15. 8. ‘À la Mode de Paris’: Linguistic Patriotism and Francophobia in 18th-century Britain 141
16. 9. Pronouncing Dictionaries between Patriotism and Prescriptivism: Perspectives on Provincialism in Webster’s America 155
17. Part 4: Re-defining Boundaries: Ideology and Language Norms
18. 10. Patriotism, Empire and Cultural Prescriptivism: Images of Anglicity in the OED 175
19. 11. You Say Nucular; I Say Yourstupid: Popular Prescriptivism in the Politics of the United States 192
20. Part 5: Identifying Norms and Attitudes in Postcolonial Contexts
21. 12. English and Pidgin in Cameroon: Peaceful or Conflicting Coexistence? 211
22. 13. Susu not Sousou: Nationalism, Prescriptivism and Etymology in a Postcolonial Creole Language Orthography 223
23. Part 6: Prescribing Norms Beyond Borders: Foreign Language Teaching
24. 14. Rules for the Neighbours: Prescriptions of the German Language for British Learners 245
25. 15. Nativeness, Authority, Authenticity: The Construction of Belonging and Exclusion in Debates about English Language Proficiency and Immigration in Britain 271
26. Index 292