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Standard English: The Widening Debate
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Standard English: The Widening Debate Paperback - 1999

by Tony Bex; Richard J. Watts

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Routledge, 1999-04-02. Paperback. Good. 0.7900 9.4500 6.1400. minor highlighting and marks
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  • Title Standard English: The Widening Debate
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, UK
  • Date 1999-04-02
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003156184
  • ISBN 9780415191630 / 0415191637
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.24 x 0.95 in (23.32 x 15.85 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Usage, English language - Study and teaching
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-36167
  • Dewey Decimal Code 428

From the publisher

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on.
These debates are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Current debates about the teaching of English in the school curriculum and concerns about declining standards of English are placed in a historical, social and international context. Standard English:
* explores the definitions of 'Standard English', with particular attention to distinctions between spoken and written English
* traces the idea of 'Standard English' from its roots in the late seventeenth century through to the present day.
This is an accessible, seminal work which clarifies an increasingly confused topic. It includes contributions from: Ronald Carter, Jenny Cheshire, Tony Crowley, James Milroy, Lesley Milroy and Peter Trudgill

First line

The chapters which make up Part I have a common ground in that they are all concerned with the ways in which the concept of 'Standard English' has been ideologically constructed.

About the author

Tony Bex is at the University of Kent. His previous publications includes Variety of Written English (1996). Richard J. Watts is at the University of Bern.