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The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 W. F. Bolton

The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 par W. F. Bolton

The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 W. F. Bolton


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This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English.

The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 Résumé

The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 W. F. Bolton

This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English. Topics discussed include the defence of English as a literary language; the relationship with other languages; propriety in literary style; the psychological bases of speech; the relationship between words and things; usage; the need for academies and standards of correctness; the rise of lexicography; spelling reform; prescriptive grammar. These essays are the most important serious attempts to consider the language from various standpoints. Students of English in university departments will find this a convenient and comprehensive collection. It is also in itself an illustration of the development of the literary language.

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Introduction; 1. William Caxton: Prologue to Eneydos; 2. Richard Mulcaster: 'That the English tung hath matter', from The First Part of the Elementarie; 3. William Harrison: 'Of the languages spoken in this Iland', from Holinshed's Chronicles; 4. William Camden: 'The Languages', from Remaines Concerning Britain; 5. Ben Jonson: Excerpt from Timber: or, Discoveries; 6. Thomas Hobbes: 'Of Speech', from Leviathan; 7. John Dryden: 'Defence of the Epilogue'; 8. Sir Thomas Browne: 'Of Languages, and Particularly of the Saxon Tongue'; 9. John Locke: 'Of Words or Language in general' and 'Of the Signification of Words', from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding; 10. Daniel Defoe: 'Of Academies', from An Essay upon Projects; 11. Joseph Addison: Spectator 135; 12. Jonathan Swift: 'A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'; 13. Lord Chesterfield: Letter to The World; 14. Samuel Johnson: Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language; 15. Noah Webster: 'An Essay on...Spelling', from Dissertations on the English Language; 16. Benjamin Franklin: 'On Modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing'; 17. William Cobbett: 'Syntax, as Relating to Nouns', from A Grammar of the English Language; 18. William Hazlitt: 'English Grammar'; 19. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Language' from Nature; 20. Thomas De Quincey: 'The English Language'; Study questions; Select index of literary and linguistic topics.

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GOR002397879
9780521093798
0521093791
The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 W. F. Bolton
Occasion - État d'usage
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Cambridge University Press
1966-01-01
244
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