Robin Straaijer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Straaijer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Straaijer |
| SIGNATURE | STRAAIJER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
Introduction. Broadly speaking, evidence sources for the study of prescriptivism can be divided into usage evidence - the actual language usage of individual speakers or speech communities - and precept evidence - the norms (prescriptive or otherwise) codified in works 011 language. New perspectives have emerged in the field of normative linguistics since the early 1990s, both theoretically and methodologically. For instance, a great deal of re…
Modern English usage from Britain to America
Garner's Modern English Usage (hereafter Garner4) was published by Oxford University Press USA in 2016. Appearing within a span of two decades, it is the fourth edition of Bryan Garner's dictionary of usage, originally published as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (Garner, 1998, hereafter Garner1). It is also the second dictionary of English usage to be published during the last three years, following the latest edition of what is arguably i…
Time for a new (but not ‘New’) Fowler
Is English usage changing more rapidly than it was before? Judging by the decreasing time between editions of ‘Fowlers’ it would seem so: thirty-nine years between Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926, from here on MEU1 ) and Gower's second edition (1965, from here on MEU2 ), and thirty-one years between the latter and Burchfield's The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996, from here on NFMEU ). This led Manfred Görlach to write in…
Attitudes to prescriptivism
The articles in this special issue investigate norms and prescriptions about norms and prescriptions in various languages and cultures. They started as papers for a workshop called ‘Attitudes to Prescriptivism’, held in 2013 at Leiden University. The aim of the workshop was to discuss attitudes towards prescriptivism, primarily from the point of view of those at whom such actions are directed. The articles in this special issue show a variety of …
Rules of engagement? Usage and normativism
In English Today 30.1, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade introduced the Leiden University research project, ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public’, and gave an example of the kind of questions we ask ourselves. That example, about questions relating to the use of have went , was very specific. In this feature, we have some questions that are rather more general, and which have to do with the discourse on usage …
Internet Linguistics
This is a little book about a big topic. But then David Crystal doesn't aim at writing an in-depth guide to the language of the internet. The aim of this student guide is, in his own words, “not ju
Language and Letters of the Bluestocking Network
Language and Letters of the Bluestocking Network: Sociolinguistic Issues in Eighteenth-Century Epistolary English (Memoires de la Societe Neo-Philologique de Helsinki 75) ANNI SAIRIO Helsinki, Mode
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Language and Letters of the Bluestocking Network
Language and Letters of the Bluestocking Network: Sociolinguistic Issues in Eighteenth-Century Epistolary English (Memoires de la Societe Neo-Philologique de Helsinki 75) ANNI SAIRIO Helsinki, Mode
Rules of engagement? Usage and normativism
In English Today 30.1, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade introduced the Leiden University research project, ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public’, and gave an example of the kind of questions we ask ourselves. That example, about questions relating to the use of have went , was very specific. In this feature, we have some questions that are rather more general, and which have to do with the discourse on usage …
Internet Linguistics
This is a little book about a big topic. But then David Crystal doesn't aim at writing an in-depth guide to the language of the internet. The aim of this student guide is, in his own words, “not ju
Time for a new (but not ‘New’) Fowler
Is English usage changing more rapidly than it was before? Judging by the decreasing time between editions of ‘Fowlers’ it would seem so: thirty-nine years between Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926, from here on MEU1 ) and Gower's second edition (1965, from here on MEU2 ), and thirty-one years between the latter and Burchfield's The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996, from here on NFMEU ). This led Manfred Görlach to write in…
Attitudes to prescriptivism
The articles in this special issue investigate norms and prescriptions about norms and prescriptions in various languages and cultures. They started as papers for a workshop called ‘Attitudes to Prescriptivism’, held in 2013 at Leiden University. The aim of the workshop was to discuss attitudes towards prescriptivism, primarily from the point of view of those at whom such actions are directed. The articles in this special issue show a variety of …
Modern English usage from Britain to America
Garner's Modern English Usage (hereafter Garner4) was published by Oxford University Press USA in 2016. Appearing within a span of two decades, it is the fourth edition of Bryan Garner's dictionary of usage, originally published as A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (Garner, 1998, hereafter Garner1). It is also the second dictionary of English usage to be published during the last three years, following the latest edition of what is arguably i…
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
Introduction. Broadly speaking, evidence sources for the study of prescriptivism can be divided into usage evidence - the actual language usage of individual speakers or speech communities - and precept evidence - the norms (prescriptive or otherwise) codified in works 011 language. New perspectives have emerged in the field of normative linguistics since the early 1990s, both theoretically and methodologically. For instance, a great deal of re…
Linguistics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Digital Communication and Language (2 works)