Author: Amy J. Devitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: scotland, volume, case, diffusion, written, english, standardizing
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2006-02-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521024048
ISBN-13: 9780521024044

Professor Devitt offers a new view of the linguistic process of standardization, the movement of specific language features towards uniformity. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical data, she examines the way in which linguistic conformity develops out of variation, and the textual and social factors that influence this process. After defining and clarifying the general theoretical issues involved, the author takes as a specific case study the standardization of written English in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows that standardization is a gradual proce

Authors:Richard Alan Strehlow,  Sue Ellen Wright,
Publisher: Astm Intl
Keywords: special, astm, technical, publication, stp, pcn, results, communication, terminology, practice, applied, theory, standardizing
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 1993-04-01
List price: $77.00
ISBN-10: 0803114931
ISBN-13: 9780803114937

Authors:Sue Ellen Wright, Sue Ellen Wright, Richard Alan Str
Publisher: ASTM International
Keywords: special, technical, publication, stp, astm, practice, harmonizing, terminology, theory, standardizing
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 1995-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0803119844
ISBN-13: 9780803119840