Attitudes toward English usage : the history of a war of words, Edward Finegan

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Attitudes toward English usage : the history of a war of words, Edward Finegan

Title remainder

the history of a war of words

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Edward Finegan

Instantiates

• Attitudes toward English usage : the history of a war of words

Publication

• New York, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1980

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Includes index

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages 179-190

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volume

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• nc

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text

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Contents

Introduction : popular and scholarly views of "good English" -- Early British views : from Dean Swift and Dr. Johnson to a famous chemist -- Early American grammarians : Webster and his rivals and successors -- Pioneer linguists and amateur philologians : 1786-1875 -- Scholarly views and systematic surveys of usage in America : 1875-1952 -- Science, nonsense, and Webster's Third : the storm breaks -- Different dictionaries, different linguists : a rival lexicon and a new linguistics -- The empirical study of attitudes toward language and correctness -- Epilogue : whose is the right to say what's right?

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5887926

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23 cm

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xi, 196 pages

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9780807725818

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79028462

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• n

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.b26107405

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(WaOLN)68853