W. F. Bolton

The English Language

Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490 1839
Herausgeber: Bolton, W. F.

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Produktbeschreibung

The writers represented here are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780521093798
• ISBN-10: 0521093791
• Artikelnr.: 26571860

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. William Caxton: Prologue to Eneydos
2. Richard Mulcaster: 'That the English tung hath matter', from The First Part of the Elementarie
3. William Harrison: 'Of the languages spoken in this Iland', from Holinshed's Chronicles
4. William Camden: 'The Languages', from Remaines Concerning Britain
5. Ben Jonson: Excerpt from Timber: or, Discoveries
6. Thomas Hobbes: 'Of Speech', from Leviathan
7. John Dryden: 'Defence of the Epilogue'
8. Sir Thomas Browne: 'Of Languages, and Particularly of the Saxon Tongue'
9. John Locke: 'Of Words or Language in general' and 'Of the Signification of Words', from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
10. Daniel Defoe: 'Of Academies', from An Essay upon Projects
11. Joseph Addison: Spectator 135
12. Jonathan Swift: 'A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'
13. Lord Chesterfield: Letter to The World
14. Samuel Johnson: Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language
15. Noah Webster: 'An Essay on...Spelling', from Dissertations on the English Language
16. Benjamin Franklin: 'On Modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing'
17. William Cobbett: 'Syntax, as Relating to Nouns', from A Grammar of the English Language
18. William Hazlitt: 'English Grammar'
19. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Language' from Nature
20. Thomas De Quincey: 'The English Language'
Study questions
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