Introduction
New approaches to the study of later modern English

Joan C. Beal, Jane Hodson, Richard Steadman-Jones and Carol Percy

University of Sheffield | University of Toronto

Quick links

References
Address for correspondence

References

Azad, Yusef

1989 The Government of Tongues: Common usage and the ‘prescriptive’ tradition 1650–1800. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford.

Baugh, Albert C.

1935 A History of the English Language. New York: Appleton–Century–Crofts. (2nd rev. ed. 1957.)

Baugh, Albert C. & Thomas Cable

2002 [3 1978] A History of the English Language. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice-Hall/Pearson.

Buchanan, James

1757 Linguae Britannicae vera pronunciatio. London: A. Millar.

Cameron, Deborah

1995 Verbal Hygiene. London & New York: Routledge.

Crowley, Tony

1991 Proper English? Readings in language, history and cultural identity. London & New York: Routledge.

Elledge, Scott

1967 “The Naked Science of Language”. Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics 1660–1800: Essays in honor of Samuel Holt Monk ed. by Howard Anderson & John S. Shea, 266–295. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press.

Fitzmaurice, Susan

1998 “The Commerce of Language in the Pursuit of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England”. English Studies 79.309–328.

Jones, Charles

1989 A History of English Phonology. London: Longman.

Leonard, Sterling Andrus

1929 The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage 1700–1800. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin. (Repr., New York: Russell & Russell 1962.)

McIntosh, Carey

1998 The Evolution of English Prose: Style, politeness, and print culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Michael, Ian

1987 The Teaching of English from the Sixteenth Century to 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Percy, Carol

1997 “Paradigms Lost: Bishop Lowth and the ‘Poetic Dialect’ in his English grammar”. Neophilologus 81.129–144.

Rodríguez-Gil, Maria E.

2003 “Ann Fisher, Descriptive or Prescriptive Grammarian?”. Linguistica e Filologia 17.183–203.

Saussure, Ferdinand de

1974 [1916] Course in General Linguistics. Ed. by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye in collaboration with Albert Riedlinger. Translated by Wade Baskin. London: Fontana.

Slack, Thomas

1777 The Ready Calculator: or, Tradesman’s sure guide, in computing the price or amount of any quantity of goods or merchandizes. Containing, I. A correct large table of the value of any quantity of goods, […] XV. A catalogue of useful memorandums in business. The third edition, corrected. London: printed for G. Robinson and T. Slack in Newcastle.

Sorensen, Janet

2000 The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Suarez, Michael F.

2000 “The Business of Literature: The book trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake ed. by David Womersley, 131–147. Oxford: Blackwell.

Sugg, Redding S.

1964 “The Mood of Eighteenth-Century English Grammar”. Philological Quarterly 43:2.239–252.

Taylor, Talbot J.

1990 “Which Is to Be Master? The institutionalization of authority in the science of language”. Ideologies of Language ed. by John E. Joseph & Talbot J. Taylor, 9–26. London & New York: Routledge.

IntroductionNew approaches to the study of later modern English

References

Introduction
New approaches to the study of later modern English