This volume offers a collection of twelve original papers on language use and attitudes towards language from both a historical and a present-day perspective. T

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most p

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

This book investigates the connections between evaluative judgements on language and the larger social, cultural, and political issues that shed light on the pr