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Langscape 2: Surveying contemporary English usage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Pam Peters
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Abstract

LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a world language, any account of usage that is limited to one person's views and resources is inadequate. The first topic and questionnaire (‘The ubiquitous letter e’) appeared in ET53 (Jan 98). See the accompanying box for further information on the Survey.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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