Manners of speaking : linguistic capital and the rhetoric of correctness in late-nineteenth-century America

A number of arguments appeared in the late-nineteenth-century United States about “correctness” in language, arguments for and against enforcing a standard of correctness and arguments about what should count as correct in language. Insofar as knowledge about and facility with “correct” linguistic u...

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Main Author: Herring, William Rodney
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-08-208