TY - BOOK AU - Crowley, Tony TI - Proper English?: Readings in Language, History and Cultural Identity SN - 9780415867580 U1 - 420.941 PY - 1991/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - English language - Great Britain - Standardization - Sources KW - Speech and Social status N1 - 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 ER -