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