Grammar Wars

Name: Grammar Wars
ISBN: 9780415793797

Publisher:: Routledge
Release Date:: 18 December 2001
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ISBN:: 9780415793797

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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Vernacular Claims Victory -- English and Latin Models -- Inversion of Linguistic Authority -- 2 "Reformation of Schooles": Hartlib, Comenius, Milton -- Architectural Metaphors -- Comenius and Hartlib -- Reception of Comenius's Ideas -- Less Grammar -- More Reading and Writing -- 3 The Battle: Good Grammar or Good Writing -- Putting Grammar to Work -- Rhetoric Subsumes Grammar: Grammar Texts as Rhetoric Handbooks -- Grammar Texts and Composition in the Schoolroom -- 4 Repairing Babel: Battles in Universal Language and Universal Grammar -- Language Acquisition: Descartes and Locke -- Universal Schemes in Seventeenth-Century England -- Universal Language in Eighteenth-Century England -- 5 Regulating Social Position -- Grammar for Foreigners: A Moral and National Identity -- Grammar for the "Weaker Sex": How Much is Morally Appropriate? -- Self-Generated Identity: The Middle Class and Birth of the uLanguage Police" -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

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