from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Standard/Nonstandard English
Anderwald, Liselotte. Negation in Non-Standard British English: Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries. (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics 8). London: Routledge, 2002.
Bex, Tony. "1. Variety and 'Standard English'." In Bex, Variety in Written English: Texts in Society /Societies in Text. (Interface). London: Routledge, 1996. 8-29.*
Blake, Norman F. Non-Standard Language in English Literature. London: Deutsch, 1981.
Crowley, Tony. Proper English? Readings in Language, History, and Cultural Identity. London: Routledge, 1991.
_____. Standard English and the Politics of Language. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2003.
Devitt, Amy. Standardizing Written English: Diffusion in the Case of Scotland, 1520-1659. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Edwards, Viv. "Patois and the Politics of Protest: Black English in British Classrooms." In Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. Ed. Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997. Rpt. Palgrave. 408-15.*
Gimson, A. C. "British English Pronunciation—Standards and Evolution." Praxis 17 (1970).
_____. "Daniel Jones and Standards of English Pronunciation." English Studies 58.2 (1977).
_____. "Towards an International Pronunciation of English." In Honour of A. S. Hornby. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978.
_____. "The Pronunciation of English: Its International Intelligibility." In The Teaching of English in Japan. Tokyo: Eichosha, 1978.
_____. "English RP: Ancient or Modern?" Praxis 2 (1979).
Görlach, Manfred. "The Place of Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Discussions of (Correct, Good, Appropriate) English." In Literature and Linguistics: Approaches, Models and Applications: Studies in Honour of Jon Erickson. Ed. Marion Gymnich, Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 233-48.*
Greenbaum, Sidney, ed. Acceptability in Language. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.
Grove, Valerie. "Of Dipsticks and the Joys of a Double Negative." Selection. In English: History, Diversity and Change. Ed. David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann. London: Routledge / Open UP, 1996.*
Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel, and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre. "Sociolinguistic and Geolinguistic Approaches to the Historical Diffusion of Linguistic Innovations: Incipient Standardisation in Late Middle English." In Sociolinguistics and the History of English: Perspectives and Problems. Ed. Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy. Monograph issue of IJES 5.1 (2005): 101-134.* (Social networks).
Honey, J. The Language Trap. Kenton: National Council for Educational Standards, 1983.
_____. Does Accent Matter? London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
_____. Language is Power: the Story of Standard English and its Enemies. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.*
Hudson, R., and J. Holmes. Children's Use of Spoken Standard English. London: School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, 1995.
Kachru, Braj B. "Standards, Codification and Linguistic Realism: The English Language in the Outer Circle." In English in the World: Teaching and Learning the Language and Literatures. Ed. Randolph Quirk and H. G. Widdowson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP / British Council, 1985. 11-30.
Labov, William. The Study of Nonstandard English. Washington D.C.: Center For Applied Linguistics, 1969.
Leith, Dick, and David Graddol. "Modernity and English as a National Language." With Liz Jackson. In Changing English. Ed. David Graddol et al. Abingdon and New York: Routledge; Milton Keynes: The Open University, 2007. 79-116.*
Leonard, S. A. The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700-1800. (U of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, 25). Madison, 1929.
Llurda Giménez, Enric. "Reactions to Deviant Language: A Chronological Review." Proceedings of the XIXth International Conference of AEDEAN. Ed. Javier Pérez Guerra et al. Vigo: Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana da Universidade de Vigo, 1996. 369-74.*
Lodge, K. Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English. London: Croom Helm, 1984.
Mackinnon, Donald. "Good and Bad English." In English: History, Diversity and Change. Ed. David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann. London: Routledge / Open UP, 1996. 338-71.*
Mallett, Phillip. "Colloq., Dial., Vulg.: Kipling and the Use of Non-Standard English." In English Literature and the Other Languages. Ed. Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.
Milroy, James, and Lesley Milroy. Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1998.
Neill, M. "Broken English and Broken Irish: Nation, Language, and the Optic of Power in Shakespeare's Histories." Shakesepare Quarterly 45 (1994): 1-32.
Nevalainen, Terttu, and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. "Sociolinguistics and the Study of English: A Survey." In Sociolinguistics and the History of English: Perspectives and Problems. Ed. Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre and Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy. Monograph issue of IJES 5.1 (2005): 33-58.* (Dialects of English, diglossia, standardization).
Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon 13 no. 76 (1946): 252-65.
_____. "Politics and the English Language." In Orwell, Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. London, 1950. 156-50.
_____. "Politics and the English Language." 1946. In Orwell, A Collection of Essays 156-71.
_____. "Politics and the English Language." In 20th Century Literary Criticism: A Reader. Ed. David Lodge. London: Longman, 1972. 360-69.*
_____. "Politics and the English Language." Rpt. in The Norton Reader. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 1992. 264-75.*
_____. "Politics and the English Language." Essay. 1946, 1947. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2462-71.*
_____. "Politics and the English Language." In Critical Discourse Analysis: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Michael Toolan. London: Routledge, 2002. 1.29-39.*
Partridge, Eric. Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English. 1947. 6th ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970.
Pring, J. T. Colloquial English Pronunciation. Longman, 1959.
Quirk, Randolph. "Language Varieties and Standard Language." Selection. In English: History, Diversity and Change. Ed. David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann. London: Routledge / Open UP, 1996.*
Smith, Jennifer. "English and Englishes." In English in the World: History, Diversity, Change. Ed. Philip Seargeant and Joan Swann. London: Routledge, 2011.
Spencer, J. "Received Pronunciation: Some Problems of Interpretation." Lingua 7 (1957).
Stone, John. "Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence and Eighteenth-century Lexicography: Sources for Johnson's Notion of Authority." SEDERI VII. Ed. S. G. Fernández-Corugedo et al. Coruña: SEDERI, 1996. 79-92.*
Swift, Jonathan. A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue. Printed for Benj. Tooke, London, 1712.
Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta, eds. Dimensions of Writing in Nonstandard English. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 67). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999.
Trudgill, Peter. "Standard English: What It Isn't." European English Messenger 7.1 (1998): 35-39.*
_____. "Standard English: What It Isn't." (Longer version). In Standard English: The Continuing Debate. Ed. R. Watts and A. Bex. London: Routledge, 1998.
Trudgill, Peter, and Jean Hannah. International English: A Guide to the Varieties of Standard English. 4th ed. London: Arnold; New York: Oxford UP, 2002.* (with cassette).
Wallace, David Foster. "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage." Harper's Magazine (April 2001). (Pro teaching Standard English, vs. descriptive linguistics)
Watts, Richard J., and Tony Bex, eds. Standard English: The Continuing Debate. London: Routledge, 1999.*
Wheeler, Rebecca S. "From Home Speech to School Speech: Vantages on Reducing the Achievement Gap in Inner City Schools." Virginia English Bulletin 51.7. 4-16.
White, Goodith. "The Standard Language Debate: Some Reflections on the Development of Differing Notions of Standard in the New Varieties of English, with Particular Reference to Irish English." In First International Conference on English Studies: Past, Present and Future: Costa de Almería, 19-25 de Octubre, 1997. Ed. Annette Gomis et al. CD-ROM. Almería: U de Almería, n.d. [2001]*
Wyld, H. C. A History of Modern Colloquial English. 2nd ed. London, 1921.
_____. A History of Modern Colloquial English. Oxford: Blackwell, 1926.
Literature
Shaw, G.B. Pygmalion. Drama. Prod. Vienna, 1913; pub. Berlin, 1913.
Societies
Society for Pure English (1913-1947). Founded by Robert Bridges, Craigie, Fowler, L. P. Smith, et al.
See also Varieties of English; Dialects of English.