An edition of Grammar wars (2001)

Grammar wars

language as cultural battlefield in 17th and 18th century England

by

Cover of: Grammar wars by Linda C. Mitchell, Linda C. Mitchell
Preview Only

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by AnandBot
November 28, 2012 | History
Edit
An edition of Grammar wars (2001)

Grammar wars

language as cultural battlefield in 17th and 18th century England

by

This work doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
218

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects

Comparative and general Grammar, English language, Grammar, History, Language and culture, Study and teaching

Places

England

Times

17th century, 18th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, History
Edition Availability
Cover of: Grammar Wars
Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Grammar Wars
Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Grammar Wars
Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Grammar Wars
Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Grammar Wars
Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
January 2002, Ashgate Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Grammar wars
Grammar wars: language as cultural battlefield in 17th and 18th century England
2001, Ashgate
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction
1 Vernacular Claims Victory
English and Latin Modes
Inversion ofLinguistic uthority
2 "Reformation of Schooles": Hartlib, Comenius, Milton
Architectural Metaphors
Comenir and Hartlib
Reception of Comenius' Ideas
Less Grammar, More Reading and Writing
3 The Battle: Good Grammar or Good Writing
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
Language Acquiititow Descartes and Locke
Universal Schemes in Sevnteenth-Centry England
UniversalLanguage in Eighteenth-Century England
5 Regulating Social Position
Grammarr ororeigners: A Moral and National dentity
Grammarfor the Weaker Sex How Much isMorallyAppopriate?
Self-Generated Identity The Middle Class and Birth of the
'Language Police'
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-207) and index.

Published in
Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
428/.0071/042
Library of Congress
PE1068.G5 M58 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 218 p. :
Number of pages
218

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3951686M
Internet Archive
grammarwarslangu0000mitc
ISBN 10
0754602729
LCCN
2001046420
OCLC/WorldCat
47756187
Goodreads
1709010

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6213997W

Source records

Scriblio MARC record
Ithaca College Library MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Promise Item
Internet Archive item record
marc_columbia MARC record

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
November 28, 2012 Edited by AnandBot Fixed spam edits.
November 26, 2012 Edited by Edited without comment.
December 5, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Added subjects from MARC records.
April 28, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Linked existing covers to the work.
December 10, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page