The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provide...
The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provides the first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes', with chapters on areas as diverse as Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. This is a timely and important topic, edited by a well-known scholar in the field, with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed. The book presents in full the criteria for defining a standard variety, and each chapter compares standards in both spoken and written English and explores the notion of register within standard varieties.
Codification is not the writing down of what people actually say and write, but the formulation of rules for what people should say, often based on cultural factors like the political influence of the capital.（139）
The first full 'American' treatment of American English did not occur until 1919, when H. L. Mencken published the first edition of The American Language.（141）
Standard American English...is not identical with the language of any natural population of speakers; it is a very real institutional construct that has attracted the loyalty of a committed group of speakers who claim that they speak it.（143）
it is not in fact all one thing, but instead is characterised by a mixture of features that come from people's experience with Standard American English in their particular regional ... (查看原文)
For pronunciation, SAE is best defined as the avoidance of pronunciations associated with particular regions or social groups. （151）
the most highly educated speakers in formal settings tend to suppress any linguistic features that they recognise as regionally or socially identifiable ('marked' features).（152） (查看原文)
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