Proper English : myths and misunderstandings about language /

• Wardhaugh, Ronald.

• English language -- Standardization
• English language -- Variation
• English language -- Usage

• Blackwell Publishers,

• The language library

• 063121268X (alk. paper)
• 0631212698 (pbk. : alk. paper)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

• Standard English the widening debate
• Man made language
• Bad language
• Discourse as data a guide for analysis
• Ideologies of language
• Talking difference on gender and language
• language of twentieth century poetry
• language of humour
• Women men and language a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language
• Exploring the language of poems plays and prose
• Language and power
• Language ideology and point of view