The bishop's grammar: Robert Lowth and the rise of prescriptivism in English
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| adam_text | Contents
Abbreviations
vii
List of Figures
viii
List of Tables
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
ι.
Prejudice and Misconceptions
ι
1.1.
The Grammar and its Status
ι
1.2.
Lowth s Reputation Today
4
1.3.
Normative Grammars
10
1.4.
Custom versus Propriety
15
1.5.
The Grammar in Context
17
1.6.
The Grammar s Distressingly Influential Life
21
2.
Life and Career
24
2.1.
Lowth s Memoirs
24
2.2.
Lowth s Will
42
2.3.
An Upwardly Mobile Philologist
47
3.
The Grammar: Origin and Publication History
52
3.1.
Origin
52
3.2.
The First Edition
57
3.3.
The Second Edition
61
3.4.
Subsequent Editions and Reprints
66
3.5.
Pirated Editions
72
3.6.
Reception of the Grammar
74
3.7.
A Publishers Project
85
4.
The Grammar: Contents and Approach
91
4.1.
Starting a Grammar
91
42.
The Grammar s Set-up
97
4.3.
Lowth s Prescriptive Approach to Grammar
103
4-4-
A Canon of Prescriptivism
116
4-5-
Treatment of Strong Verbs and Irregular Verbs
120
4-6.
Our Best Authors Criticized
128
4-7-
Critical, Traditional, Innovative
133
5·
Reconstructing Lowth s Social Network
137
51.
Gaining Access to a Social Network
137
5-2.
Lowth s Correspondence Hi
VI
CONTENTS
5.3.
Types of Letters
148
5.4.
Epistolary Formulas as an Index of Social Relationships
153
5.5.
Letters as Evidence of Lowth s Social Network
163
5.6.
Other Evidence for Reconstructing the Network
170
5.7.
Coalitions, Social Networks, and the Church
180
6.
Communicative Competence and the Language of the Letters
183
6.1.
Different Styles of Writing
183
6.2.
Lowth s Linguistic Repertoire
189
6.3.
Linguistic Involvement in the Letters
192
6.4.
Spelling in the Letters
198
6.5.
Special Lexis
210
6.6.
Spelling as an Index of Intimacy
221
7.
Lowth s Own Usage and the Grammar s Norm of Correctness
224
7.1.
Eighteenth-century Usage Problems
224
7.2.
Lowth s Linguistic Awareness
228
7.3.
Grammar and Epistolary Style
232
7.4.
Grammar Rules in the Making
244
7.5.
What is Customary among our
Superiours
251
8.
The Grammar and the Rise of Prescriptivism
254
8.1.
Lowth among the Prescriptive Grammarians
254
8.2.
Eighteenth-century Grammars and the
Standardization Process
258
8.3.
The Birth of the Usage Guide
260
8.4.
Lowth s Footnotes: a Usage Guide in Embryonic Form
272
8.5.
Different Communities of Practice
277
8.6.
The Linguists versus the Prescriptivists
283
8.7.
The Domain of Normative Linguistics
286
9.
Conclusion
289
Appendices
295
1.
Sources of Lowth s correspondence
295
2.
Lowth s correspondents
298
3.
Presentation copies of Isaiah
303
References
308
Primary sources
308
Secondary sources
311
Index
327
This spirited account of the life and language
of one of the seminal figures in the history of
English grammar dispels the myth of Lowth
as the icon of prescriptivism, and establishes
him as the most important figure in
eighteenth-century English grammar writing.
Ingrid
Tieken-Boon van
Ostade
examines
the life and work, as well as the language,
of Robert Lowth
(1710-1787),
reputed
founder of the grammatical prescriptivism
greatly deprecated by modern linguists
and educational theorists. She considers
Lowth and his grammar in the context of
his time and from the perspective of his
aims and readership. Once the grammar had
been accepted for publication, she shows
how it developed into a publishers project
similar to Samuel Johnson s Dictionary of
the English Language which it was intended
to complement. Drawing on contemporary
sources, including Lowth s extensive
correspondence, his unpublished memoir,
and his last will and testament, Professor
Tieken explores the social networks,
aspirations, beliefs, and reading habits that
informed and shaped his grammar and ideas
on language. She also shows that Lowth s own
language often fell short of the norms and
strictures advanced in his book. By comparing
the grammar with guides to English usage
published in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Professor Tieken redefines Lowth s
position in the history of handbooks of
correct usage, as well as his role in the
establishment of the canon of prescriptivism.
This book will appeal to all those
interested in the history of English, the role
of language in the Enlightenment, and the
long-running debate on linguistic correctness
and the merits or otherwise of prescriptive
rules in the teaching and use of English.
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