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Grammar wars : language as cultural battlefield in 17th and 18th century England / Linda C. Mitchell.
Van Pelt Library PE1068.G5 M58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Linda C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--England--History--17th century.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching--England--History--18th century.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Study and teaching--England--History.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- English language--Grammar--Study and teaching--History.
- Language and culture--England--History--17th century.
- Language and culture.
- Language and culture--England--History--18th century.
- Grammar.
- History.
- English language--Grammar--Study and teaching.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Study and teaching.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- England.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Grammar.
- English language--Early modern--Grammar.
- English language--18th century--Grammar.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 Vernacular Claims Victory 17
- English and Latin Models
- Inversion of Linguistic Authority
- 2 "Reformation of Schooles": Hartlib, Comenius, Milton 46
- Architectural Metaphors
- Comenius and Hartlib
- Reception of Comenius's Ideas
- Less Grammar, More Reading and Writing
- 3 The Battle: Good Grammar or Good Writing 73
- Putting Grammar to Work
- Rhetoric Subsumes Grammar: Grammar Texts as Rhetoric Handbooks
- Grammar Texts and Composition in the Schoolroom
- 4 Repairing Babel: Battles in Universal Language and Universal Grammar 108
- Language Acquisition: Descartes and Locke
- Universal Schemes in Seventeenth-Century England
- Universal Language in Eighteenth-Century England
- 5 Regulating Social Position 133
- Grammar for Foreigners: A Moral and National Identity
- Grammar for the "Weaker Sex": How Much is Morally Appropriate?
- Self-Generated Identity: The Middle Class and Birth of the "Language Police".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754602729
- OCLC:
- 47756187
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