Ebook: Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity

Investigates whether we can make assumptions about people’s values from their attitudes towards one social phenomena 

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism.