Proper English?: Readings in Language, History and Cultural Identity

By:

Crowley, Tony

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Politics of Language SeriesPublication details: Routledge 1991 LondonDescription: 268pISBN:

9780415867580

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DDC classification:

420.941 CRO

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	420.941 CRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M0031850

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Introduction: language, history and the formation of cultural identity
1. Extracts from An Essay concerning Human understanding (1690) / John Locke
2. Extracts from A Proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English language (1712) / Jonathan Swift
3. Extract from The Plan of a dictionary of the English language (1747) / Samuel Johnson
4. Extracts from A Course of lectures on elocution (1762) / Thomas Sheridan
5. Extract from An Essay towards establishgin a standard for an elegant and uniform pronunciation of the English language (1764) / James Buchanan
6. Extract from Dissertations on the English language (1789) / Noah Webster
7. Extracts from A Critical Pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language (1791) / John Walker
8. Extract from A Vocabulary or collection of words and phrases (1816) / John Pickering
9. 'On the probable future position of the English language' (1850) / T. Watts
10. Extracts from On the study of words (1851) / Archbishop R. C. Trench
11. Proposal for the publication of a new English dictionary (1858)
12. Extracts from A Book about words (1869) / G. F. Graham
13. Extracts from The Queen's English (1864; 3rd edn 1870) / Henry Alford
14. Extract from 'The speech of American women' (1905) / Henry James
15. Extracts from The Teaching of English in England (1921) / Henry Newbolt
16. Extracts from 'The best English: A claim for the superiority of received standard English' (1934) / Henry Wyld
17. Extracts from "Linguistic class-indicators in present-day English' (1954) / A. S. C. Ross
18. Extracts from "Did man make language?' (1983) / Alison Assiter
19. Extracts from English our English: the new orthodoxy examined (1987) / John Marenbon

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