UID:
almahu_9948208570102882
Umfang:
XXXVII, 216 p.
,
online resource.
Ausgabe:
1st ed. 1995.
ISBN:
9780230371309
Serie:
Language, Discourse, Society
Inhalt:
This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.
In:
Springer eBooks
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333616345
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333616352
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349392698
Weitere Ausg.:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780312123161
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1057/9780230371309
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371309
