Heartfield, John

Lange, Barbara H.

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“…Trying to capitalise on Honey's controversial reputation among linguists and the public at large, Plurabelle Books tried to sell the late John Honey's library by writing on their website early in 2012: Someone said, conversations with Mr H contained many words, mostly his. He was a linguist of received pronunciation (RP), a historian of education, and an academic in the 20th century, with all the embarrassments this involves 13 …”

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Analysing the huge mailbag: Reception of John Honey's The Language Trap

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Just after the start of the research project Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguists, Prescriptivists and the General Public in 2011, we laid our hands on a file called ‘Reactions to L. Trap’. The file contains well over 200 documents: letters, picture postcards, notes, newspaper clippings, and various other items, almost all of them relating to the reception of a pamphlet called The Language Trap, written by John Honey (1933–2001) and published in 1983 by the British National Council for Educational Standards (NCES). The file was offered for sale by Plurabelle Books in Cambridge as part of the late John Honey's library, and acquiring it offered a unique opportunity to study the reception of this highly controversial publication, not only by linguists, but also by the general public. Both groups responded in large numbers to the publicity the pamphlet inspired, in the press as well as on the radio.

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“… 2 It is thanks to one of the Bridging the Unbridgeable's former student assistants Cynthia Lange's careful detective work that we found out about John Honey's year of death (Lange, 2012). Publishing about John Honey and his work on the Bridging the Unbridgeable project's blog has since brought me in touch with Honey's family. …”

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Analysing the huge mailbag: Reception of John Honey's The Language Trap

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