Revising the “journalist’s bible”. How news practitioners respond to language and social change
1 Introduction
In this chapter, I look at how journalists themselves think about language and language change, and respond to attitudes and opinion about style and usage that come from within the profession and from the outside world, through an examination of the Associated Press Stylebook. These responses to language issues are in the form of explicit injunctions and usage rules as well as extended, and critical, discussion about their professional (or in-group) and larger-society (external group) appropriateness.
The in-group judgments about language use and change have their own constraints (see Cotter 2010), denoted in relation ...
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