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Contents

Contributors

1Introduction: Values and Binaries in Language Evaluation

Jacob D. Rawlins and Don Chapman

Part 1: Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary

2Is/Ought: Hume’s Guillotine, Linguistics and Standards of Language

John E. Joseph

3Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation

Marla Perkins

4Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It

Don Chapman

Part 2: Prescriptivism vs Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary

5The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism

Lieselotte Anderwald

6Examining the Split Infinitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change

Viktorija Kostadinova

7Language Should Be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917–2016

Marten van der Meulen

8Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania

Loreta Vaicekauskienė

Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity

9‘Good Guys’ vs ‘Bad Guys’: Constructing Linguistic Identities on the Basis of Usage Problems

Carmen Ebner

10What Do ‘Little Aussie Sticklers’ Value Most?

Alyssa A. Severin and Kate Burridge

11Grammar Next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel

Nola Stephens-Hecker

12Linguistic Cleanliness is Next to Godliness – But Not for Conservative Anabaptists

Kate Burridge

Part 4: Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation

13Fowler’s Values: Ideology and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

Giuliana Russo

14US Copy Editors, Style Guides and Usage Guides and their Impact on British Novels

Linda Pillière

15Practicing Prescriptivism: How Copy Editors Treat Prescriptive Rules

Jonathon Owen

Index