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Author_Linda Mitchell
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charles
Cultural
Early Modem England
early modern English grammar debates
educational reform history
eighteenth
Eighteenth Century Grammarians
english
English Grammar
English Tongue
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gender and language studies
George Dalgarno
Grammar
Grammar Books
Grammar Texts
grammarians
Hartlib Circle
historical sociolinguistics
hoole
Issues
Janua Linguarum Reserata
John Dury
Joseph Webbe
Language
Language Planners
language standardisation
latin
Latin Grammar
Latin Models
Linda C. Mitchell
Linguistic Authority
marginalised groups discourse
Michael Maittaire
Orbis Sensualium Pictus
Social
social class linguistics
texts
tongue
Traditional Rhetoric
universal
Universal Grammar
Universal Language
Universal Language Schemes
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415793797
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title was first published in 2001: 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. 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. The book is intended as a landmark study of an important movement in the foundation of the modern world.
