Book
English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.
- Author
- Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
- Date
- 16 November 2017
- Links
- Available via Oxford University Press
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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.