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English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
Tieken-boon Van Osta
English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
Tieken-boon Van Osta
This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.
240 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 16, 2018 |
Original release date | 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780198808206 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Dimensions | 164 × 242 × 21 mm · 539 g |
Editor | Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (Professor of English Sociohistorical Linguistics, Professor of English Sociohistorical Linguistics, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) |
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