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

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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
218

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Grammar Wars: Language As Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
January 2002, Ashgate Publishing
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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.

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Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, VT

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 218 p. :
Number of pages
218

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

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