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Anne Curzan
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| #1660620 in Books | 2016-04-08 | 2016-04-21 | Original language:English | 9.02 x.43 x5.98l,.63 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is a really great book by a very interesting author|By J. Balmer|This is a really great book by a very interesting author. If you are interested at all in words, this is a great pick.||"Anne Curzan takes prescriptivism seriously; this informative, engaging and readable book deserves serious attention from anyone with an interest in the history - or the future - of English." |Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford
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Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have aspired to 'fix' the language, sometimes by keeping English exactly where it is, but also by trying to improve the current state of the language. Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of...
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