Proper English

ISBN-13: 9780415046787 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 280 str.

Tony Crowley

Opis

Covering a three hundred-year period from Locke to the present, this book demonstrates the processes by which particular forms of language (and those that use them) are validated as correct and proper and which forms are evaluated as wrong or impure.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction Language, history and the formation of cultural identity; Chapter 2 John Locke; Chapter 3 Jonathan Swift; Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson; Chapter 5 Thomas Sheridan; Chapter 6 James Buchanan; Chapter 7 Noah Webster; Chapter 8 John Walker; Chapter 9 John Pickering; Chapter 10 T. Watts; Chapter 11 Archbishop R.C. Trench; Chapter 12 Proposal; Chapter 13 G.F. Graham; Chapter 14 Henry Alford; Chapter 15 Henry James; Chapter 16 Henry Newbolt; Chapter 17 Henry Wyld; Chapter 18 A.S.C. Ross; Chapter 19 Alison Assiter; Chapter 20 John Marenbon;

O autorze

Tony Crowley, University of Southampton