Anne Curzan
Biographic Data
| ID | 528170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Curzan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Curzan |
| SIGNATURE | CURZAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Prescriptivism: One Style Manual, One Century
This article analyzes the changing prescriptive aims of the New York Times style guide from 1923 to 2015. While the editors of the style guide are not always explicit about the political pressures that result in changes from one edition to the next, the development of the entries throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries demonstrates the power of standard language ideology at work. By tracing the changing prescriptions over the decades,…
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Interchanges: Response to Shawna Shapiro
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Communal Justicing: Writing Assessment, Disciplinary Infrastructure, and the Case for Critical Language Awareness
Critical language awareness offers one approach to communal justicing , an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field’s pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents of communal justicing
Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
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 prescriptivis…
Linguistics matters: Resistance and relevance in teacher education
This article emphasizes the importance and benefits of showing college students, especially those in teacher education programs, how the material in introductory linguistics courses is relevant to K-12 language arts education. It offers four specific examples of course activities and assignments that can help connect material about the structure of English, language change, and linguistic diversity to the teaching of 'English', language arts, and…
Synchrony and Diachrony in North American English
Review Article| November 01 2005 SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY IN NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH Edited by John Algeo Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii + 625. The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 6, English in North America ANNE CURZAN ANNE CURZAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (4): 425–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-4-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations
Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In …
North Carolina Language and Life; Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect ; The Ocracoke Brogue: A Portrait of Hoi Toider Speech ; Ocracoke Speaks: The Distinct Sounds of the “Hoi Toide” Brogue
Review Article| May 01 2002 NORTH CAROLINA LANGUAGE AND LIFE; Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect; The Ocracoke Brogue: A Portrait of Hoi Toider Speech; Ocracoke Speaks: The Distinct Sounds of the “Hoi Toide” Brogue Produced and directed by Neil Hutcheson. Narrated by Linda Oxendine Raleigh: North Carolina Language and Life Project, 28 min. Videocassette, 28 min. Produced and directed by Phyllis Blanton and Karen Waters Executive producer, Walt W…
The End of Modern English
Research Article| August 01 2000 THE END OF MODERN ENGLISH? ANNE CURZAN ANNE CURZAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 299–301. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation ANNE CURZAN; THE END OF MODERN ENGLISH?. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 299–301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-…
Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Part 1 Antonymy - scope and delimitations: some remarks on the state of the art semantic opposition - two againsts adversivity, oppositeness of meaning and contrast. Part 2 Contrast: opposites in context - basic assumptions opposites in context - corpus. Part 3 Semantic oppostion - systemic versus non-systemic: systemic semantic opposition non-systemic opposition. Part 4 Oppositeness of meaning - basic assumptions: central oppositeness of meaning…
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
Linguistics matters: Resistance and relevance in teacher education
This article emphasizes the importance and benefits of showing college students, especially those in teacher education programs, how the material in introductory linguistics courses is relevant to K-12 language arts education. It offers four specific examples of course activities and assignments that can help connect material about the structure of English, language change, and linguistic diversity to the teaching of 'English', language arts, and…
Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Part 1 Antonymy - scope and delimitations: some remarks on the state of the art semantic opposition - two againsts adversivity, oppositeness of meaning and contrast. Part 2 Contrast: opposites in context - basic assumptions opposites in context - corpus. Part 3 Semantic oppostion - systemic versus non-systemic: systemic semantic opposition non-systemic opposition. Part 4 Oppositeness of meaning - basic assumptions: central oppositeness of meaning…
The End of Modern English
Research Article| August 01 2000 THE END OF MODERN ENGLISH? ANNE CURZAN ANNE CURZAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 299–301. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation ANNE CURZAN; THE END OF MODERN ENGLISH?. American Speech 1 August 2000; 75 (3): 299–301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-…
North Carolina Language and Life; Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect ; The Ocracoke Brogue: A Portrait of Hoi Toider Speech ; Ocracoke Speaks: The Distinct Sounds of the “Hoi Toide” Brogue
Review Article| May 01 2002 NORTH CAROLINA LANGUAGE AND LIFE; Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect; The Ocracoke Brogue: A Portrait of Hoi Toider Speech; Ocracoke Speaks: The Distinct Sounds of the “Hoi Toide” Brogue Produced and directed by Neil Hutcheson. Narrated by Linda Oxendine Raleigh: North Carolina Language and Life Project, 28 min. Videocassette, 28 min. Produced and directed by Phyllis Blanton and Karen Waters Executive producer, Walt W…
Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations
Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In …
Synchrony and Diachrony in North American English
Review Article| November 01 2005 SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY IN NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH Edited by John Algeo Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxii + 625. The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 6, English in North America ANNE CURZAN ANNE CURZAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2005) 80 (4): 425–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-80-4-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Linguistics matters: Resistance and relevance in teacher education
This article emphasizes the importance and benefits of showing college students, especially those in teacher education programs, how the material in introductory linguistics courses is relevant to K-12 language arts education. It offers four specific examples of course activities and assignments that can help connect material about the structure of English, language change, and linguistic diversity to the teaching of 'English', language arts, and…
Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
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 prescriptivis…
Communal Justicing: Writing Assessment, Disciplinary Infrastructure, and the Case for Critical Language Awareness
Critical language awareness offers one approach to communal justicing , an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field’s pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents of communal justicing
Reflections From Editors of Journal of English Linguistics
Interchanges: Response to Shawna Shapiro
Preview this article: Interchanges: Response to Shawna Shapiro, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ccc/74/2/collegecompositionandcommunication32281-1.gif
Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination
Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds of judgments can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including in educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties and the specific ways beliefs and ideologies about them allow judgments about l…
The Politics of Prescriptivism: One Style Manual, One Century
This article analyzes the changing prescriptive aims of the New York Times style guide from 1923 to 2015. While the editors of the style guide are not always explicit about the political pressures that result in changes from one edition to the next, the development of the entries throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries demonstrates the power of standard language ideology at work. By tracing the changing prescriptions over the decades,…
Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)