Download or read book A Proposal for Correcting Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Works written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Swift D D Dean of St Patrick s Dublin written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works Accurately Revised In Twelve Volumes Adorned with Copper Plates with Some Account of the Author s Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory By John Hawkesworth LL D written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Swift Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Begins at Jamestown written by Tim William Machan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind these choices and the effects they have on our understanding of the English language and its history. Tim Machan explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. He describes how narrative principles are constructed, what kinds of facts and analyses they allow or prevent, and what can be known outside of them. The book's historically and critically wide-ranging arguments center on the themes of social purpose, aesthetics, periodization, and grammatical structure, while the conclusion extends the discussion into the roles of speakers themselves, who have transformed the grammar and pragmatics of English since the colonial period embodied in the Jamestown settlement. English Begins at Jamestown shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to narrate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.

Download or read book Words Books Images and the Long Eighteenth Century written by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.

Download or read book A Study of the Letter Writers of the Eighteenth Century written by Earl Hudelson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternative Histories of English written by Peter Trudgill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks. Orthodox histories have presented a tunnel version of the history of the English language which is sociologically inadequate. In this book a range of leading international scholars show how this focus on standard English dialect is to the detriment of those which are non-standard or from other areas of the world. Alternative Histories of English: * reveals the range of possible 'narratives' about how different varieties of 'Englishes' may have emerged * places emphasis on pragmatic, sociolinguistic and discourse-oriented aspects of English rather than the traditional grammar, vocabulary and phonology * considers diverse topics including South African English, Indian English, Southern Hemisphere Englishes, Early Modern English, women's writing, and politeness. Presenting a fuller and richer picture of the complexity of the history of English, the contributors to Alternative Histories of English explain why English is the diverse world language it is today.

Download or read book Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth century Fiction written by Megan Perigoe Stitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three major nineteenth-century writers in the context of the models of progress emerging from contemporary studies in geology and language. The deployment of varieties of speech in their novels throws light on how different genres--fictional and scientific--affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.

Download or read book The Works of the Rev Dr Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romanticism and Linguistic Theory written by M. Tomalin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.

Download or read book Miscellanies By Dr Swift Dr Arbuthnot Mr Pope and Mr Gay In four volumes The sixth edition corrected with several additional pieces in verse and prose With nine additional volumes by Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Words of the World written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

Download or read book A Journal to Stella written by Jonathan Swift and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This letter-diary, written between 1710–1713 and addressed to Swift's lifelong friend, sparkles with the satirist's renowed wit and offers an intimate account of the personalities, politics, and drama of Queen Anne's court.