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Prescriptivism in action ... : Evaluating the production and reception of reviewer prescriptivism in Late Modern English ...
Malory, Beth. - : Lancaster University, 2021
Abstract: It has long been hypothesized that the literary review periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were a consistent source of prescriptive material, and that this material had a significant impact on the language usage of reviewed authors. However, a lack of empirical research in this area has left both of these hypotheses unsubstantiated by empirical data. Difficulties have beset attempts to evaluate the success of prescriptivist endeavours in other contexts, rendering attempts to do so in relation to Late Modern review periodicals a significant challenge. However, the purpose of this thesis is to redress the data gaps which exist in relation both to our understanding of how review periodicals mediated prescriptivist discourses, and what the impact of this prescriptivism was. In redressing the data gap relating to the production and dissemination of normative materials within the context of periodical reviewing, this thesis firstly applies discourse analytic methodologies to a purpose-built ...
Keyword: eighteenth century; grammar; historical linguistics; history of English; Linguistics & English Language; modelling; Nineteenth Century; prescriptivism
URL: http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/prescriptivism-in-action(656c2aed-1f60-4d3b-acfb-a78205448768).html
https://dx.doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1363
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