Wendy Ayres-Bennett
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wendy Ayres-Bennett is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2214-1057
2023 Modelant l’estandardització: Tendències actuals i emergents Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology, Feliu, Francesc (ed.), pp. 189–201 | Chapter
In this chapter, I outline certain developments in work on standardization since the turn of this century that has challenged traditional thinking on modelling standardization. From the 2000s, there has been a proliferation of publications and approaches, whether focusing on the linguistic,… read more
2016 Codification and prescription in linguistic standardisation: Myths and models Constructing Languages: Norms, myths and emotions, Feliu, Francesc and Josep M. Nadal (eds.), pp. 99–129 | Article
This paper aims to contribute to the field of “comparative standardology”, arguing that it is only through the adoption of a comparative perspective that certain myths about the process of standardisation can be dispelled. In particular, I will consider what light recent work on English and German… read more
2014 From l’usage to le bon usage and back: Norms and usage in seventeenth-century France Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 173–200 | Article
This paper examines the extent to which the characterisation of seventeenth-century France as the archetypal period of prescriptivism and rigid codification is justified. The major normative texts are presented, as are the sources currently available for comparing their pronouncements with… read more
2011 Metaphors in metalinguistic texts: The case of observations and remarks on the French language History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 239–249 | Article
My aim in this paper is to examine how and why metaphors are used in certain metalinguistic texts. In particular I wish to explore the extent to which they help the reader to understand the key ideas and arguments of the work by relating them to other fields of interest.
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2006 Reading the Remarqueurs: Changing perceptions of ‘classic’ texts Historiographia Linguistica 33:3, pp. 263–302 | Article
It is commonly stated that metalinguistic texts reflect the historical, social and intellectual context in which they are produced. In this article the author examines how later readings of ‘classic’ texts can both reflect the changing concerns of the time and colour subsequent readings of those… read more
1990 ‘Influence’ in Linguistic Historiography: Some examples from 17th-century France History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 367–380 | Chapter
1987 Usage and Reason in Seventeenth-Century French Grammar: A fresh look at Vaugelas Papers in the History of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS III), Princeton, 19–23 August 1984, Aarsleff, Hans, L.G. Kelly and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 233–246 | Article