PDFThe Language Police— Prescriptivism and Standardization
What is the language police like? What does it do? Learn about the soft and hard enforcements and the relation between offensive speech and humour.
FIRST SECTION
- What Is the Language Police?
SECOND SECTION
- The Soft Enforcement: Standardization and Grammatical Correctness
THIRD SECTION
- The Hard Enforcement: Language and Politics
FOURTH SECTION
- Offensive Speech and Humour, Words and Expressions
