Massimo Sturiale

List of John Benjamins publications in which Massimo Sturiale is involved.

Article

Sturiale, Massimo 2006 William Perry’s The Royal Standard English Dictionary (1775): A provincial’s attempt to ascertain and fix a standard to the pronunciation of the English tongue New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 139–168 | Article

This paper examines the role of William Perry (1747–post 1805), an active Scottish schoolteacher and lexicographer, in the prescription of norms for a ‘correct’ pronunciation of standard English, being perfectly in line with the language guardians of the time. Although Perry shares a few… read more