TY - BOOK AU - Afolayan,Adebisi AU - Bickerton,Derek AU - Dijk,Teun A.van AU - Eagleson,Robert D. AU - Gent,J.A.W.M.van AU - Greenbaum,Sidney AU - Haans,A.F.J. AU - Lakoff,Robin AU - Levelt,W.J.M. AU - McDavid,Raven I. AU - Meijer,Guus AU - Meijers,A.J.A. AU - Mohan,Β.Α. AU - O’Cain,Raymond K. AU - Rabin,Chaim AU - Snow,Catherine AU - Svartvik,Jan AU - Tottie,Gunnel AU - Wright,David TI - Acceptability in Language T2 - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , SN - 9789027976239 U1 - 301 23/eng PY - 2015///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Acceptability (Linguistics) KW - Grammaticality (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages -- Variation KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria --; 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles --; 4. Acceptability in Context --; 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability --; 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language --; 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery --; 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina --; 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar --; 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language --; 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions --; 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English --; 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806656 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110806656 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110806656/original ER -