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'...this is not just another book on the history of the study of English; it is a monumental critique of the relationship between language and power.' Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, University of Malawi
'...this is not just another book on the history of the study of English; it is a monumental critique of the relationship between language and power.' Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, University of Malawi
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For historians of the study of language in Britain it has become a commonplace that the eighteenth century, in which the discourses of prescriptivism predominated, was superseded by a nineteenth-century reaction against such discourses. Read the first page
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For historians of the study of language in Britain it has become a commonplace that the eighteenth century, in which the discourses of prescriptivism predominated, was superseded by a nineteenth-century reaction against such discourses. Read the first page
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