Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (Studies in English Language)

✍ Scribed by Raymond Hickey (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 445
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and grammars first appeared. This book is divided into thematic sections which deal with issues central to English in the eighteenth century. These include linguistic ideology and the grammatical tradition, the contribution of women to the writing of grammars, the interactions of writers at this time and how politeness was encoded in language, including that on a regional level. The contributions also discuss how language was seen and discussed in public and how grammarians, lexicographers, journalists, pamphleteers and publishers judged on-going change. The novel insights offered in this book extend our knowledge of the English language at the onset of the modern period.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
List of maps......Page 11
List of tables......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 18
1 - Attitudes and concerns in eighteenth-century English......Page 20
2 - Prescriptivism and the suppression of variation......Page 40
3 - Women's grammars......Page 57
4 - Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness......Page 78
5 - Lowth as an icon of prescriptivism......Page 92
6 - Queeney Thrale and the teaching of English grammar......Page 108
7 - Coalitions, networks, and discourse communities in Augustan England: The Spectator and the early eighteenth-century essay......Page 125
8 - Contextualising eighteenth-century politeness: social distinction and metaphorical levelling......Page 152
9 - Expressive speech acts and politeness in eighteenth-century English......Page 178
10 - Variation and change in eighteenth-century English......Page 201
11 - Variation in sentential complements in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English: a processing-based explanation......Page 219
12 - Nationality and standardisation in eighteenth-century Scotland......Page 240
13 - English in eighteenth-century Ireland......Page 254
14 - Changes and continuities in dialect grammar......Page 288
15 - `Be pleased to report expressly': the development of a public style in Late Modern English business and official correspondence......Page 312
16 - Registering the language -- dictionaries, diction and the art of elocution......Page 328
Timeline for the eighteenth century......Page 358
References......Page 379
Late modern English language studies......Page 422
Indexes......Page 433

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;История английского языка / History of the English Language;