10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERCORRECTNESS»
Discover the use of
hypercorrectness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hypercorrectness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Language and Human Nature
One form taken by Simple Ignorance is hypercorrectness, which turns a
commendable desire to be correct into a new kind of error, that of obeying a rule
where it has no application. It produces such locutions as "Mommy gave some
ice-cream ...
2
Language Contact and Language Conflict
three attitudes to the expression of politeness: hypocorrectness,
hypercorrectness or obligatory politeness. Hypocorrectness arises where a
bilingual's use of language is such as not to be polite enough judging by the
norms of the second ...
3
A Dictionary of Language Acquisition: A Comprehensive ...
156 hypercorrection hypercorrection also hypercorrectness, hyperurbanism,
overcorrection a term used in linguistics to refer to the movement of a linguistic
form beyond the point set by the variety of language that a speaker has as a
target.
4
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial ...
The notion of hypercorrectness presented above contrasts with the
conceptualization of variationists, in that the former implies the use of
nonstandard forms, whereas the latter involves the use of standard, or prestigeful,
forms more often than ...
Susan Berk-Seligson, 2012
5
How To Say It for Women
Hypercorrectness: A Poor Camouflage for Weak Language Still another
language form that dogs working women and the weak in general is
hypercorrectness. You are hypercorrect when, instead of comfortably speaking
the language, you err ...
6
Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial ...
Without a doubt, the redistribution of idiolects in the language serves the order of
French domination well, centralized and met— ropolitan by definition. In this
regard, hypercorrectness was able to touch the language of the poor colonist.
7
Computer Science Logic: 22nd International Workshop, CSL ...
Aunion ofpathsissaidto be bounce-compatible if its paths are pairwise bounce-
compatible. Definition 5 (Hypercorrectness). Aproofstructureθ is hypercorrect if for
every Λ ⊆ θ and every bounce-compatible non-empty union S of &-oriented ...
Michael Kaminski, Simone Martini, 2008
8
History of the Yiddish Language
We must take into consideration that, in their endeavors to exchange a given
series, the speakers could have fallen into hypercorrectness (1.6.6). With
contemporary examples we can illustrate such overreach thus: The Warsaw Jew
who seeks ...
9
Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
... in kept asking for “a cup of coffee, please” at the whites-only lunch
counter inWoolworth's.This practice of hypercorrectness echoes the advice of the
dying grandfather in Ellison's Invisible Man: “Live with your head in the lion's
mouth.
10
Samuel Butler and the meaning of chiasmus
Of the theoretical possibilities - i.e. (1) correct pronunciation, (2) random
pronunciation, (3) 'h'-dropping (leaving 'h' out incorrectly), (4) hypercorrectness (
putting 'h' in where it should not be), and (5) 'h'-dropping and hypercorrectness ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERCORRECTNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hypercorrectness is used in the context of the following news items.
Eat the Rude: Hannibal Lecter meets the 99%
and, most pointedly, on the social distance between her hick accent and what he hears as her grammatical hypercorrectness. It makes perfect ... «Boing Boing, Feb 15»
Grammar police
I of course chose the title to make fun of hypercorrectness. The butt of the joke is the old convention—now considered excessively ... «Columbia Journalism Review, May 13»
