Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 1-4

3. The nature of the standard

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 5-27

4. Grammaticality

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 28-57

5. Prestige speech patterns

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 58-105

6. Language change

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 106-160

7. Social levelling, or anti-standardization

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 161-207

8. Away from the Anglo-Saxon model: the case of French

   • Nigel Armstrong, Ian E. Mackenzie

   Pages 208-228

9. Back Matter

   Pages 229-253

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The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization.

• language
• linguistics
• standardization
• discourse analysis

• University of Leeds, UK

  Nigel Armstrong

• Newcastle University, UK

  Ian E. Mackenzie

NIGEL ARMSTRONG is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His current research projects focus on social, regional and stylistic variation in French, as well as translation. Nigel's previous publications include Translation, Linguistics, Culture and (with T. Pooley) Social and Linguistic Change in European French.

IAN MACKENZIE is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He specializes in syntax, particularly in relation to the diachronic development of Spanish, but also in relation to other Romance languages. Ian's publications include Introduction to Linguistic Philosophy and Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages.

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