Codification, Canons and Curricula

Anne Schröder, Ralf Schneider and Ulrich Busse: Description and Prescription in Language and Literature: Introductory Remarks Part I: Setting the Scene: Codifications and Canons - Historical Background and Parameters Ulrich Busse and Anne Schröder: What Exactly is 'Standard English'? Ralf Schneider: Codification, Descriptivism and Prescriptivism in British Literary History Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: Codifying the English Language Claudia Claridge: Registers, Genres and the Standard: Some Thoughts on the Corpus-linguistic Documentation of the 18th Century Helge Nowak: Canons, Curricular Conventions, and the Literary History of Britain and Ireland Part II: Authorities and Institutions - Practices of Description and Prescription Sabine Volk-Birke: The Literary Critic as an Institution Marie-Luise Egbert: Translation and Canon Formation Stefanie Preuss: The Canon of a Stateless Nation: Practices of Literary Canon Formation in Scotland Barbara Frank-Job: Codification and Linguistic Norms in Romance Languages Charlotte Brewer: Dictionary-Making, Usage, Literature and the Classics: The Unhappy Fate of Oxford's Quarto Dictionary 1925-1958 Joan Beal: New Authorities and the 'New Prescriptivism' Part III: Expanding the Canons, Testing the Norms Stephan Gramley: General Non-Standard English: The Covert ENL Norm Claudia Lange: Postcolonial Englishes: From Norms to Standards Pam Peters: Usage Guides and Australian English: Prescription and Description Eva Ulrike Pirker: New Canons in the Making: Creating Visual 'Archives' of Black Britain Andrea Moll: Orthographic Practices in Diasporic Jamaican Online Communities: Between Idiosyncratic Usage and 'Grassroots' Conventionalisation Rolf Lohse: Testing the Norms: Humour as a 'Harmless' Transgression Part IV: Teaching the Norms - Influences of Description and Prescription on the Curriculum Claus Gnutzmann: Teaching English in a Globalised World: Does it Make a Difference? Augustin Simo Bobda:

Anne Schröder holds the chair for English Linguistics at Bielefeld University, Germany. She studied English and French at the Université de Caen (France), the University of Bristol (UK), and at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany), where she received her Dr. phil. in English linguistics. Before taking up her present post, she taught at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research interests are varieties of English around the world, with a focus on tense and aspect in Cameroon Pidgin English, and morphological productivity. She has also co-authored several papers with Ulrich Busse on aspects of English usage guides.Ulrich Busse is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Martin Luther University at Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Over the past twenty years, he has published widely on Anglo-German language contact and its lexicographical description, including a book and a three-volume dictionary on the influence of English on Present-day German. His general interest in lexis and its description is reflected in a number of publications on lexicology and (meta-) lexicography. In English historical linguistics, he has worked on Early Modern English, historical pragmatics and the language of Shakespeare in particular. More recently, he has investigated the role of prescription and description in the codification of English as exemplified in usage manuals.Ralf Schneider received his PhD from the University of Cologne, then held teaching posts at the universities of Tübingen and Freiburg and has been professor of British Literature and Culture at Bielefeld University since 2005. His fields of research include cognitive theory and criticism, literary theory, the Victorian Era, the war-media-art nexus and narratives of the experience of migration.