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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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