Book

English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes

The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.

Author

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Date

16 November 2017

Links

Available via Oxford University Press

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Chapters look at how and why these guides are compiled, and by whom; what sort of advice they contain; how they differ from grammars and dictionaries; and how attitudes to usage have changed.