The languages of nation : attitudes and norms

 Content: Introduction : Multidisciplinary and multilingual perspectives on 'patriotic' prescriptivism / Carol Percy and Mary Catherine Davidson --
 Foreword : Language, prescriptivism, nationalism - and identity / John Edwards --
 William Cecil and the rectification of English / Ian Lancashire --
 Prescribing pastoral and pragmatic orientations : challenges for language policy / Lionel Wee --
 Mutual preservation of standard language and national identity in early modern Wales / John D. Phillips --
 'A highly poetical language'? Scots, Burns, patriotism and evaluative language in 19th-century literary reviews and articles / Marina Dossena --
 Language and national identity in 17th- and 18th-century England / Linda C. Mitchell --
 'Á la mode de Paris' : linguistic patriotism and Francophobia in 18th-century Britain / Joan C. Beal --
 Pronouncing dictionaries between patriotism and prescriptivism : perspectives on provincialism in Webster's America / Massimo Sturiale --
 Patriotism, empire and cultural prescriptivism : images of anglicity in the OED / Lynda Mugglestone --
 You say nucular, I say yourstupid : popullar prescriptivism in the politics of the United States / Don Chapman --
 English and pidgin in Cameroon : peaceful or conflicting coexistence? / Jean-Paul Kouega --
 Susu not Sousou : nationalism, prescriptivism and etymology in a postcolonial Creole language orthography / Lise Winer --
 Rules for the neighbours : prescriptions of the German language for British learners / Nicola McLelland --
 Nativeness, authority, authenticity : the construction of belonging and exclusion in debates about English language proficiency and immigration in Britain / Martin Gill.