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Rules of use : language and instruction in early modern England
- Title
- Rules of use : language and instruction in early modern England / Julian Lamb.
- Author
- Lamb, Julian.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 189 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "We take it for granted that we can use words properly - appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use "proper." Given that properness is determined by the unpredictable vagaries of unrepeatable contexts, it is impossible to formulate an absolute rule which tells what is proper in every situation. In its four case studies of texts by Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster, and the first English dictionary writers, Rules of Use shows the way in which early modern pedagogues attempted to articulate such a rule whilst being mindful that proper use can neither be determined by any single rule, nor definitively described in examples. Using the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell's influential reading of it, Rules of Use argues that early modern pedagogues became entangled in a sceptical problem: aspiring to formulate a definitive rule of proper use, their own instruction begins to appear uncertain and lacking in assurance when they find such a rule cannot be expressed"--
- Subjects
- England
- English language > Usage > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Case studies
- Grammatik
- English language > England > Usage > Case studies
- Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 > Toxophilus
- Lehrmittel
- Wörterbuch
- Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 > Scholemaster
- Sprachunterricht
- Mulcaster, Richard, 1530-1611 > Elementarie
- English language > Study and teaching > England > History > Early modern, 1500-1700
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General
- English language > Social aspects > England > Case studies
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > A dictionary of the English language
- English language > History > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Case studies
- Puttenham, George, approximately approximately 1529-1600 > Arte of English poesie
- Frühneuenglisch
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
- Contents
- Towards a Grammar of Use -- Pedagogy and Scepticism -- The Augustinian Picture of Language -- Context -- Use, Usual, Useful -- Using Perfection: Roger Ascham's Toxophilus and The Scholemaster -- Taking Aim: Toxophilus -- Ascham's Scepticism: The Scholemaster, Book 1 -- 'The daily use of writing': The Scholemaster, Book 2 -- Decorous Abuse: George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesy -- Decorum and the Critics -- The Art of Ambiguity -- Usual Speech: The Eye and the Ear -- Solace -- Usual Spelling: Richard Mulcaster's The First Part of the Elementarie -- Jonathan Goldberg's reading of Mulcaster's Elementarie -- Grounds -- Sound -- Training -- Sound, Reason, Custom -- Rules and Use -- Arts of Use: Early English Dictionaries, 1604-58 -- Context -- Johnson's Dictionary: Aspiration and Resignation -- 'Hard usuall English wordes' -- An Unused Siding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5359
- ISBN
- 9780567238191
- 0567238199
- 9781472531773 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781472534552 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014009528
- 40024150019
- OCLC
- 879538783
- Author
- Lamb, Julian.
- Title
- Rules of use : language and instruction in early modern England / Julian Lamb.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024150019
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5359