Why Linguists Should Deal with "Good Language" and "Bad Language." [microform] / Florian Coulmas.

Linguists generally refuse to make judgments about language or define standards of excellence for it. This perpetuates a fundamental paradox of descriptive linguistics: the inability to describe a language without providing a standard or setting a norm. The discipline's desire to escape from et...

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Online Access:	Request ERIC Document
Main Author:	Coulmas, Florian
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985.
Subjects:	Diachronic Linguistics. Diglossia. Language Attitudes. Language Maintenance. Language Planning. Language Role. Linguistic Borrowing. Quality Control. Sociolinguistics. Standards. Written Language.