Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T17:06:34.311Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Langscape: Surveying contemporary English usage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Pam Peters
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a world language, any account of usage that is limited to one person's views and resources is inadequate.

Type
Langscape
Information
English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allbrow, Kenneth. 1972. The English writing system: notes towards a description. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Cherry, Colin. 1975 (5th printing: orig. 1957). On human communication. Boston: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: University Press.Google Scholar
McArthur, Tom. 1992. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford: University Press.Google Scholar
Schane, Sanford. 1977. ‘Rule-breaking in English spelling: a study of final E’ In Hopper, P., ed. Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehman. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Wijk, Axel. 1966. Rules of Pronunciation for the English Language. (Language and Language Learning 12.) London: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar