Kingsley Amis: The Prescriptivist

In The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage, Kingsley Amis identified H. W. Fowler as his great predecessor. Amis revealed himself as a soldier in the army of prescriptivists, voices that settle ‘modern linguistic problems’ while proudly parading as non-linguists. The book exposed Amis’s acrimoni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cehan Nadina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-12-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0003