Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Values and Binaries in Language Evaluation -- Part 1 Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism: An Untenable Binary -- 2 Is/Ought: Hume's Guillotine, Linguistics and Standards of Language -- 3 Inferring Prescriptivism: Considerations Inspired by Hobongan and Minority Language Documentation -- 4 Are You a Descriptivist or a Prescriptivist? The Meaning of the Term Descriptivism and the Values of Those Who Use It -- Part 2: Prescriptivism vs Linguistics: An Unnecessary Binary -- 5 The Linguistic Value of Investigating Historical Prescriptivism -- 6 Examining the Split Infi nitive: Prescriptivism as a Constraint in Language Variation and Change -- 7 Language Should Be Pure and Grammatical: Values in Prescriptivism in the Netherlands 1917-2016 -- 8 Maintaining Power through Language Correction: A Case of L1 Education in Post-Soviet Lithuania -- Part 3: Responding to Correctness: Personal Values and Identity -- 9 'Good Guys' vs 'Bad Guys': Constructing Linguistic Identities on the Basis of Usage Problems -- 10 What Do 'Little Aussie Sticklers' Value Most? -- 11 Grammar Next to Godliness: Prescriptivism and the Tower of Babel -- 12 Linguistic Cleanliness is Next to Godliness - But Not for Conservative Anabaptists -- Part 4 Judging Correctness: Practitioner Values and Variation -- 13 Fowler's Values: Ideology and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926) -- 14 US Copy Editors, Style Guides and Usage Guides and their Impact on British Novels -- 15 Practicing Prescriptivism: How Copy Editors Treat Prescriptive Rules -- Index