Tony Crowley

Proper English (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1991. Debates about the state and status of the English language are rarely debates about language alone. Closely linked to the question, what is proper English? is another, more significant social question: who are the proper English? The texts in this book have been selected to illustrate the process by which particular forms of English usage are erected and validated as correct and standard. At the same time, the texts demonstrate how a certain group of people, and certain sets of cultural practices are privileged as correct, standard and central. Covering a period of three hundred years, these writers, who include Locke, Swift, Webster, James, Newbolt and Marenbon, wrestle with questions of language change and decay, correct and incorrect usage, what to prescribe and proscribe. Reread in the light of recent debates about cultural identity - how is it constructed and maintained? what are its effects? - these texts clearly demonstrate the formative roles of race, class and gender in the construction of proper 'Englishness' . Tony Crowley's introductory material breaks new ground in rescuing these texts from the academic backwater of the 'history of the language' and in reasserting the central role of language in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135081324
• Artikelnr.: 39933865

Autorenporträt

Tony Crowley, University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Language, history and the formation of cultural identity
Chapter 2 John Locke
Chapter 3 Jonathan Swift
Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson
Chapter 5 Thomas Sheridan
Chapter 6 James Buchanan
Chapter 7 Noah Webster
Chapter 8 John Walker
Chapter 9 John Pickering
Chapter 10 T. Watts
Chapter 11 Archbishop R.C. Trench
Chapter 12 Proposal
Chapter 13 G.F. Graham
Chapter 14 Henry Alford
Chapter 15 Henry James
Chapter 16 Henry Newbolt
Chapter 17 Henry Wyld
Chapter 18 A.S.C. Ross
Chapter 19 Alison Assiter
Chapter 20 John Marenbon