The Languages of Nation

1. Introduction: Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives on National Language Norms - Carol Percy and Mary Catherine Davidson 2. Preface: Language, Prescriptivism, Nationalism and Identity - John Edwards Section 1. Managing Language Policies 3. William Cecil and the Rectification of English - Ian Lancashire 4. Prescribing Pastoral and Pragmatic Orientations: Challenges for Language Policy - Lionel Wee Section 2. Colonialism and Literary Canons 5. Mutual Preservation of Standard Language and National Identity in Early Modern Wales - John D. Phillips 6. "A Highly Poetical Language"? Scots, Burns, Patriotism and Evaluative Language in 19th Century Literary Reviews and Articles - Marina Dossena Section 3. Transmarine and Transatlantic Allegiances 7. Language and National Identity in 17th and 18th century England - Linda C. Mitchell 8. " la mode de Paris": Linguistic Patriotism and Francophobia in 18th century Britain - Joan C. Beal 9. Pronouncing Dictionaries between Patriotism and Prescriptivism: Perspectives on Provincialism in Webster's America - Massimo Sturiale Section 4. Re-defining Boundaries: Ideology and Language Norms 10. Patriotism, Empire, and Cultural Prescriptivism: Images of Anglicity in the OED - Lynda Mugglestone 11. You Say Nucular, I Say Yourstupid: Popular Prescriptivism in the Politics of the United States - Don Chapman Section 5. Identifying Norms and Attitudes in Postcolonial Contexts 12. English and Pidgin in Cameroon: Peaceful or Conflicting Co-existence? - Jean-Paul Kouega 13. "Susu" not "Sousou": Nationalism, Prescriptivism, and Etymology in a Post-colonial Creole Language Orthography - Lise Winer Section 6. Prescribing Norms beyond Borders: Foreign Language Teaching 14. Rules for the Neighbours: Prescriptions of the German Language for British Learners - Nicola McLelland 15. Nativeness, Authority, Authenticity: The Construction of Belonging and Exclusion in Debates about English Language Proficiency and Immigration in Britain - Martin Gill