Exploring The Correctness Wars: Seeking New and Common Ground

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Exploring The Correctness Wars: Seeking New and Common Ground

Objectives

Correctness Is Important!

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: What does that mean?

CORRECTNESS: A Relative Notion

CORRECTNESS: A Relative Notion

Switching Gears: Exploring Public Reaction To Correctness

A traitor committing treason

English speakers as akin to Nazi prison guards?

Grammar error as disease, as contagious, pathogenic and as a curse.

Grammar error as disease, as contagious, pathogenic and as a curse.

Grammar error as disease, as contagious, pathogenic and as a curse.

Grammar error as disease, as contagious, pathogenic and as a curse.

Usage error as grammatical collapse

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

As old as the hills: dark pronouncements about the language and its speakers

What to make of it?

What to make of it?

Language in the midst of change: The familiar I/me controversy

Language in the midst of change: The familiar I/me controversy

Language in the midst of change: The familiar I/me controversy

English, like all languages, changes:

English, like all languages, changes:

Back to Correctness:

The dominant variety & success in America

Correctness & Writing

Correctness & Writing

In Summary: Revisiting Language Usage and Correctness

In Summary: Revisiting Language Usage and Correctness

Works Cited

Works Cited (continued)

Exploring The Correctness Wars: Seeking New and Common Ground

Author: Stewart Library

Home Page: http://library.weber.edu/language