With grammar you “go by feel”
Language norms and standards represent important issues in linguistics studies, even though it might be widely acknowledged that the question of what constitutes a norm is one that is extremely hard to answer since it often relies on social parameters and values.There are two ways in which we can lo...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6186 |
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| Summary: | Language norms and standards represent important issues in linguistics studies, even though it might be widely acknowledged that the question of what constitutes a norm is one that is extremely hard to answer since it often relies on social parameters and values.There are two ways in which we can look at the grammar of a language: what we ought to say and what is actually said. This requires distinguishing language from speech as the former is social and refers to the rules which govern the language and the latter is part of a set of patterns which are mentally reactivated and therefore part of an individual process of acquisition of the language.The performance, then, is likely to produce nonstandard forms reflecting inadequate competence as regards Standard English. They can nonetheless be recognised and interpreted by a large majority of English-speaking people. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |