Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Norms and Margins: Ideology and Concepts; 1 Norms and Margins of English; 2 Approaching Norms and Margins on Different Levels: Going beyond the Standard/Non-Standard Divide; 3 Prescriptive Grammar and the Rationalist Cultural Model of Standardisation; Part II Norms and Margins: A Historical Perspective; 4 Norms and Rules in the History of Grammar: French and English Handbooks in the Seventeenth Century.

5 The End of Toleration? Language on the Margins in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language6 Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries: Reflecting Usage or Setting Their Own Standard?; 7 Setting a Standard: Authors and Sources in the OED; 8 Conflicting Linguistic Norms in the Letters of Virginian Soldiers during the American Civil War; 9 Correcting English: Josephine Turck Baker (1873-1942) and the Early American Usage Guide Tradition; Part III Norms and Margins: Moving into the Twenty-First Century; 10 The Grammatical Margins of Class.

11 Concepts of Correctness and Acceptability in British English: Exploring Attitudes of Lay People12 Maori English in Maori Literature: Standardising the Margin into a Norm; 13 Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors; Author Index; Subject Index.