Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century EnglandAshgate, 2001 - 218 Seiten Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were contested. In Grammar Wars, author Linda C. Mitchell situates early modern linguistic discussions, long thought to be of little interest, in their larger cultural and social setting to show the startling degree to which grammar affected, and was affected by, such factors as class and gender.In her examination of the controversies that surrounded the teaching and study of grammar in this period, Mitchell looks especially at changing definitions and standardization of 'grammar', how and to whom it was taught, and how grammar marked the social position of marginal groups. Her comprehensive study of the contexts in which grammar was intended or thought to function is based on her analysis of the ancillary materials - prefaces, introductions, forewords, statements of intent, organization of materials, surrounding materials, and manifestos of pedagogy, philosophy, and social or political goals - of more than 300 grammar texts of the time. Grammar Wars is a landmark study of an important movement in the foundation of the modern world. |
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... close a letter properly ; write letters on fine post paper ; seal the letter and address it properly ( 44-45 ) . These practical rules for writing business letters were important for the trades- man . With them he established his ...
... close a letter properly ; write letters on fine post paper ; seal the letter and address it properly ( 44-45 ) . These practical rules for writing business letters were important for the trades- man . With them he established his ...
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... close to it from the Beginning to the last Period of the Discourse " ( 228 ) . Writing instruction in schoolrooms to this date had not included specific instructions on sticking to the subject and looking at the composition as a whole ...
... close to it from the Beginning to the last Period of the Discourse " ( 228 ) . Writing instruction in schoolrooms to this date had not included specific instructions on sticking to the subject and looking at the composition as a whole ...
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... close his section on style by observing that " the chief use of written language must be to record , extend , and perpetuate , useful knowledge ... that we ought rather to aim at perspicuity and strength of expression , than exactness ...
... close his section on style by observing that " the chief use of written language must be to record , extend , and perpetuate , useful knowledge ... that we ought rather to aim at perspicuity and strength of expression , than exactness ...
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Vernacular Claims Victory | 17 |
Hartlib Comenius Milton | 46 |
Good Grammar or Good Writing | 73 |
Urheberrecht | |
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