Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors

Linda Pilliere (1)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone

Printing and publishing have historically played an important role in standardising the English language, but we are usually unaware of the numerous changes made to a manuscript before it reaches the bookshop. Indeed, most readers probably do not even notice the name of the editor and would be surprised, even taken aback, to discover that a novelis more of a collaborative effort than first assumed.

Domaines: Linguistique; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Linda Pilliere. Imposing a Norm: The Invisible Marks of Copy-Editors. Linda Pillière; Wilfrid Andrieu; Valérie Kerfelec; Diana Lewis. Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language, Part III n° 13, Cambridge University Press, pp.251-276, 2018, 9781108120470. ⟨10.1017/9781108120470]⟩. ⟨hal-01995846⟩