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The Study of Language in 17th-Century England
Second Edition
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ISBN 9789027209580
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the ‘universal language’.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 17] 1988. x, 218 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Location of sources | pp. vi–6
- Preface to the first edition | pp. vii–x
- Preface to the second edition | pp. xi–xiv
- Further reading | pp. xv–x
- I. Applied Linguistics
- 1. Problems of Language-Teaching: A discussion among Hartlib's friends | pp. 3–14
- 2. Joseph Webbe: Some seventeenth-century views on language-teaching and the nature of meaning | pp. 15–32
- 3. John Brinsley: 17th-century pioneer in applied linguistics | pp. 33–46
- 4. Early Seventeenth-Century Punctuation as a Guide to Sentence-Structure | pp. 47–60
- II. Grammatical Theory
- 5. Pre-Cartesian Linguistics (On the occasion of Noam Chomsky's “Cartesian Linguistics”) | pp. 63–86
- 6. James Shirley and Some Problems of 17th-Century Grammar | pp. 87–96
- 7. ‘Philosophical’ Grammar in John Wilkins's “Essay” | pp. 97–126
- III. Universal Language
- 8. Language-Planning in Seventeenth-Century England; its context and aims | pp. 129–156
- 9. The evolution of Dalgarno's “Ars signorum” (1661) | pp. 157–176
- 10. Cave Beck: A seventeenth-century Ipswich schoolmaster and his “Universal Character” | pp. 177–190
- 11. John Wilkins' “Essay” (1668): Critics and continuators | pp. 191–206
- Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1957-1987E.F.K. Koerner | p. 207
- Index of Authors | pp. 215–218
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