Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Perspectives on 'Patriotic' Prescriptivism -- 2. Foreword: Language, Prescriptivism, Nationalism - and Identity -- Part 1: Managing Language Policies -- 3. William Cecil and the Rectification of English -- 4. Prescribing Pastoral and Pragmatic Orientations: Challenges for Language Policy -- Part 2: Colonialism and Literary Canons -- 5. Mutual Preservation of Standard Language and National Identity in Early Modern Wales -- 6. 'A Highly Poetical Language'? Scots, Burns, Patriotism and Evaluative Language in 19th-century Literary Reviews and Articles -- Part 3: Transmarine and Transatlantic Allegiances -- 7. Language and National Identity in 17th- and 18th-century England -- 8. 'À la Mode de Paris': Linguistic Patriotism and Francophobia in 18th-century Britain -- 9. Pronouncing Dictionaries between Patriotism and Prescriptivism: Perspectives on Provincialism in Webster's America -- Part 4: Re-defining Boundaries: Ideology and Language Norms -- 10. Patriotism, Empire and Cultural Prescriptivism: Images of Anglicity in the OED -- 11. You Say Nucular; I Say Yourstupid: Popular Prescriptivism in the Politics of the United States -- Part 5: Identifying Norms and Attitudes in Postcolonial Contexts -- 12. English and Pidgin in Cameroon: Peaceful or Conflicting Coexistence? -- 13. Susu not Sousou: Nationalism, Prescriptivism and Etymology in a Postcolonial Creole Language Orthography -- Part 6: Prescribing Norms Beyond Borders: Foreign Language Teaching -- 14. Rules for the Neighbours: Prescriptions of the German Language for British Learners -- 15. Nativeness, Authority, Authenticity: The Construction of Belonging and Exclusion in Debates about English Language Proficiency and Immigration in Britain -- Index