Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (Studies in English Language)

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
List of maps......Page 11
List of tables......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 18
1 - Attitudes and concerns in eighteenth-century English......Page 20
2 - Prescriptivism and the suppression of variation......Page 40
3 - Women\'s grammars......Page 57
4 - Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness......Page 78
5 - Lowth as an icon of prescriptivism......Page 92
6 - Queeney Thrale and the teaching of English grammar......Page 108
7 - Coalitions, networks, and discourse communities in Augustan England: The Spectator and the early eighteenth-century essay......Page 125
8 - Contextualising eighteenth-century politeness: social distinction and metaphorical levelling......Page 152
9 - Expressive speech acts and politeness in eighteenth-century English......Page 178
10 - Variation and change in eighteenth-century English......Page 201
11 - Variation in sentential complements in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English: a processing-based explanation......Page 219
12 - Nationality and standardisation in eighteenth-century Scotland......Page 240
13 - English in eighteenth-century Ireland......Page 254
14 - Changes and continuities in dialect grammar......Page 288
15 - `Be pleased to report expressly\': the development of a public style in Late Modern English business and official correspondence......Page 312
16 - Registering the language -- dictionaries, diction and the art of elocution......Page 328
Timeline for the eighteenth century......Page 358
References......Page 379
Late modern English language studies......Page 422
Indexes......Page 433