Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Linda C Mitchell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-20 - Publisher: Routledge

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This title was first published in 2001: Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the
The Handbook of World Englishes
Language: en
Pages: 846
Authors: Cecil L. Nelson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-15 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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The definitive reference work on World Englishes—fully revised, expanded, and updated The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of articles on the cross
Printing History and Cultural Change
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Richard Wendorf
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed p
Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntac
The Languages of Nation
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Carol Percy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-25 - Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural