Tony Fairman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Fairman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairman |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maidstone, Kent. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing and ‘the Standard’
This article gives a detailed description and discussion of seven applications for poor relief, as found in the archives of English County Record Offices. All letters were written by or for poor writers between 1795 and 1834. As the variety used in these letters is not ‘Standard’, nor ‘dialect’, the second part of the article is devoted to the question of how this variety relates (or does not) to traditional linguistic views on standardisation. C…
Words in English Record Office documents of the early 1800s
Introduction English County Record Offices are ‘responsible for official and local authority records (both past and present) and also contain church and chapel records, the private records of businesses [and of individuals], local societies and political parties’ (Dewe 2002: 38). In this study I look at some of these records, which after about 1750 become plentiful for English written on all levels of ‘letteracy’ – minimally, partly, extensively …
Mainstream English
A response to the prescriptivist/descriptivist skirmishes between Bryan Garner on the one side and Tom McArthur and Richard Bailey on the other. Whenever describers and prescribers of the English language meet, they don't exchange views in balanced and civil discussion. They fight
Post & (E)Mail
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English Pauper Letters 1800–34, and the English Language
Schooled and open Englishes
A response to John Honey's article ‘The straw hippopotamus’ (ET 55, Jul 98) and his recent book ‘Language is Power’ (1997)
How the ass became a donkey
An account of how and why a mysterious new word more or less replaced a once-universal predecessor
Ergo lingua mihi deficit
A reply to Sir Randolph Quirk and a discussion of the implications of Braj Kachru's term ‘deficit linguistics’
Let grammarians return to describing the language
A response to comments recently made by grammarians in ‘English Today’
English through the looking-glass
A reply to the replies of the grammarians in April, continuing the debate on description, prescription, and the standard language
Prestige, purity, and power
‘Language isn't used only for communication; it's also used as an instrument of political and social power.’ If this is so, is something that was common 150 years ago in the social power-plays of England repeating itself in black Africa
Writing and ‘the Standard’
This article gives a detailed description and discussion of seven applications for poor relief, as found in the archives of English County Record Offices. All letters were written by or for poor writers between 1795 and 1834. As the variety used in these letters is not ‘Standard’, nor ‘dialect’, the second part of the article is devoted to the question of how this variety relates (or does not) to traditional linguistic views on standardisation. C…
Prestige, purity, and power
‘Language isn't used only for communication; it's also used as an instrument of political and social power.’ If this is so, is something that was common 150 years ago in the social power-plays of England repeating itself in black Africa
Let grammarians return to describing the language
A response to comments recently made by grammarians in ‘English Today’
English through the looking-glass
A reply to the replies of the grammarians in April, continuing the debate on description, prescription, and the standard language
Ergo lingua mihi deficit
A reply to Sir Randolph Quirk and a discussion of the implications of Braj Kachru's term ‘deficit linguistics’
How the ass became a donkey
An account of how and why a mysterious new word more or less replaced a once-universal predecessor
Schooled and open Englishes
A response to John Honey's article ‘The straw hippopotamus’ (ET 55, Jul 98) and his recent book ‘Language is Power’ (1997)
Post & (E)Mail
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
English Pauper Letters 1800–34, and the English Language
Mainstream English
A response to the prescriptivist/descriptivist skirmishes between Bryan Garner on the one side and Tom McArthur and Richard Bailey on the other. Whenever describers and prescribers of the English language meet, they don't exchange views in balanced and civil discussion. They fight
Words in English Record Office documents of the early 1800s
Introduction English County Record Offices are ‘responsible for official and local authority records (both past and present) and also contain church and chapel records, the private records of businesses [and of individuals], local societies and political parties’ (Dewe 2002: 38). In this study I look at some of these records, which after about 1750 become plentiful for English written on all levels of ‘letteracy’ – minimally, partly, extensively …
Writing and ‘the Standard’
This article gives a detailed description and discussion of seven applications for poor relief, as found in the archives of English County Record Offices. All letters were written by or for poor writers between 1795 and 1834. As the variety used in these letters is not ‘Standard’, nor ‘dialect’, the second part of the article is devoted to the question of how this variety relates (or does not) to traditional linguistic views on standardisation. C…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)