THE ROLE OF PRESCRIPTIVISM IN AMERICAN LINGUISTICS 1820-1970 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- 1.0 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 PRESCRIPTIVISM -- 1.2 DESCRIPTIVISM -- 1.3 OTHER LINGUISTIC ATTITUDES -- 1.4 ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -- 1.5 CORRECTNESS IN AMERICA -- 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY -- 1.7 ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR -- 2.0 THE CHALLENGE TO PRESCRIPTIVISM: 1820-1851 -- 2.1 REACTION AGAINST ROTE LEARNING -- 2.2 WILLIAM SAMUEL CARDELL -- 2.3 NOAH WEBSTER -- 2.4 ATTACKS ON MURRAY'S GRAMMAR -- 2.5 GOOLD BROWN -- 2.6 ASA RAND -- 2.7 EFFECT OF NATIONALISM -- 2.8 AN APPEAL FROM THE OLD THEORY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR -- 2.9 BOUNDLESSNESS AND ROMANTICISM -- FOOTNOTES -- 3.0 THE REVIVAL OF PRESCRIPTIVISM: 1851-1875 -- 3.1 HEMPL'S INDICTMENT -- 3.2 THE GENTEEL CULTURE -- 3.3 THE GREAT DICTIONARY WAR -- 3.4 ATTACK ON 'INNOVATIONS' -- 3.5 GOOLD BROWN REDUX -- 3.6 MARSH AND THE 'ANGLICAN COMMUNITY' -- 3.7 PRESCRIPTIVISM AND PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS -- 3.8 CORRECTNESS IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS -- 3.9 RICHARD GRANT WHITE -- 3.10 FITZEDWARD HALL -- 3.11 GENERAL CULTURAL CONDITIONS -- FOOTNOTES -- 4.0 THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PRESCRIPTIVE NOTION: THE 20TH CENTURY -- 4.1 PUBLIC ATTITUDES AND LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENTS -- 4.2 SCIENCE AND LANGUAGE STUDY -- 4.3 LINGUISTIC ECOLOGY -- 4.4 THE GENTEEL CONTINUITY -- 4.5 THE ROLE OF NCTE -- 4.6 THE "STANDARD ENGLISH' NOTION -- 4.7 THE ROLE OF GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION -- 4.8 THE STYLISTIC DIMENSION -- 4.9 THE FAILED REVOLUTIONS -- 4.10 CORRECTNESS IN THE 1960's -- 4.11 TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR AND CORRECTNESS -- 4.12 THE INTELLECTUAL SPIRIT OF THE 20TH-CENTURY -- 4.13 THE 1890'S -- 4.14 THE REVOLT AGAINST FORMALISM -- 4.15 THE PROGRESSIVE DILEMMA AND LANGUAGE -- 4.16 THE SPECIAL STATUS OF LINGUISTIC ATTITUDES -- 4.17 THE ROMANTIC CONTINUITY -- 4.18 THE ACADEMIC PROTEST.

4.19 UNIVERSAL ATTITUDES AND LOCAL CONDITIONS -- FOOTNOTES -- 5.0 THE DICTIONARY WAR -- 5.1 THE THIRD AND AMERICAN STRUCTURALISM -- 5.2 THE INITIAL PRESS REACTION -- 5.3 DEEPER CRITICISMS -- 5.4 THE THIRD AS BOLSHEVISM -- 5.5 THE EDITORIAL TOUCHSTONES -- 5.6 GOVE'S REBUTTAL -- 5.7 JOURNALISTIC DEFENSES OF THE THIRD -- 5.8 ATTACKS BY PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS -- 5.9 MARIO PEI -- 5.10 THE DEBATE SUSTAINED -- 5.11 THE CHARACTER OF THE ATTACKS -- 5.12 TWO PRINCIPAL ATTACKS -- 5.13 THE PROFESSIONAL SPLIT -- 5.14 SLEDD'S INDICTMENT -- 5.15 PRESCRIPTIVE STRENGTH -- 5.16 THE BRITISH VIEW -- 5.17 BUSINESS RIVALRY -- 5.18 THE USAGE PANEL -- 5.19 PRESCRIPTIVISM EVIDENCED -- FOOTNOTES -- 6.0 BLACK ENGLlSH AND ThE AMERICAN DREAM -- 6.1 BLACK VS. 'STANDARD1 ENGLISH -- 6.2 THE REAL1TY OF 'STANDARD' ENGLISH -- 6.3 THE REAL1TY OF BLACK ENGLISH -- 6.4 ThE DEFICIT NOTION -- 6.5 LABOV'S REBUTTAL -- 6.6 ERADICATION MOVEMENT -- 6.7 ENLIGHTENED BIDIALECTALISM -- 6.8 MOTlVES FOR BIDIALECTALISM -- 6.9 OBJECTIONS TO BIDIALECTALISM -- 6.10 JENSENISH -- 6.11 A SOCIOLINGUISTIC OPTION TO BIDIALECTALISM -- 6.12 THE PRESCRIPTIVE CONTINUITY -- FOOTNOTES -- 7.0 CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.