Standard English: The Widening Debate

by Tony Bex and Richard J. Watts

Book Overview

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on.
These debates are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Current debates about the teaching of English in the school curriculum and concerns about declining standards of English are placed in a historical, social and international context. Standard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415191629
• ISBN13: 9780415191623
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"