Via Edwin Battistella’s Facebook post, I was alerted to Volume 100, Issue 1 of American Speech. I don’t have access to it, but I enjoy just reading the table of contents:
Louise Pound, H. L. Mencken, and the Founding of American Speech: In Memory of Ron Butters
Connie C. EbleThe Politics of Prescriptivism: One Style Manual, One Century
Kristin VanEyk; Anne CurzanDARE, Literature, and Enregistered Regional Identities
Michael AdamsAlgae, Fungi, Binomial Nomenclature, and the Search for “Correct” Pronunciations
Dale F. CoyeThe Representation of Earlier African American Vernacular English By Charles W. Chesnutt
Irene KimbaraDescribing 400 Years of American English Can be Like Comforting, Super Interesting, and Literally Challenging
David JohnsonDiscovering the Many Englishes of North America
Samantha M. Litty
And at least we can read the first page of each! (In the VanEyk/Curzan piece, the manual in question is the New York Times style guide: “By tracing the changing prescriptions over the decades, this study highlights the complicated but important nature of the politics of prescriptivism.”)
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