Michael Halliday (1985, p. xxiii) cited in: David Brazil (1995) A Grammar of Speech. p. 10.
1970s and later
“Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.”
Source: Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
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Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 1987, p. 84
"Description and explanation in linguistics"
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“What quaint English. They make an unpredictable linguistic duo.”
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Source: "A synopsis of linguistic theory 1930-1955." 1957, p. 21; as cited in: Olivares, Beatriz Enriqueta Quiroz. The interpersonal and experiential grammar of Chilean Spanish: Towards a principled Systemic-Functional description based on axial argumentation. Diss. University of Sydney, 2013.
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"The Matter of Metaphor" in Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1997).
"Description and explanation in linguistics"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”
Remarks by the President and the Vice President at Town Hall Meeting in Tampa, Florida https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-and-vice-president-town-hall-meeting-tampa-florida (28 January 2010)
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