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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the first edition of which was published in 1926, has traditionally been seen as 'the closest thing Britain has to an Academy of English'.(1) [...]

'Now then, my dear Bill', wrote Benjamin Garlike to William Cobbett in 1784, 'it is for you to determine whether you shall all your life yield an abject submission to [...]

The antecedents of the term received pronunciation are, in general, firmly located in the work of the nineteenth-century phonetician and philologist Alexander Ellis. The first three usages attested in OED [...]

In this work Ingham focuses on the coding of both gender and class as social and ideological signifiers within the six novels which she examines. Ranging from Bronte's Shirley to [...]

'When words are restrained, by common usage, to a particular sense, to run up to etymology, and construe them by dictionary, is wretchedly ridiculous', Johnson's Dictionary states dismissively in one [...]

A Language Suppressed takes as its main territory an area which, as Jones tresses, has traditionally been seen as lying on `the periphery of the linguistic scholarly tradition'. His attempt [...]

Stanley Hussey opens the Preface to The English Language: Structure and Development by engaging with the often polemical nature of modem educational debate on the relative utility of formal grammatical [...]

Focusing on language and linguistic change in early modern English, Sociolinguistics and Language History presents a series of 'pilot studies' which aim to investigate the applications of modern sociolinguistic and [...]

In Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Vivian Cook presents a clear, informed, and wide-ranging study of this particularly interesting area of language research, and of its developments as an independent [...]

Jargon: its uses and abuses is written in Walter Nash's characteristically entertaining, and informative, style. Divided into two sections, the first sets out an excursus on the nature of jargo [...]

David Burnley's History of the English Language: A Source Book, as its full title indicates, places its emphasis primarily on the provision of a series of 'sources' by which the [...]

Imagination is, according to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the stuff of which lovers, lunatics, and poets are made; in Yaguello's fascinating study, imagination instead marks a particular kind of [...]

By S. Petrey. Pp. viii + 176. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. 9-99£. This book is both informative and illuminating. Divided into three sections, it traces the development of [...]

|WHAT has been lacking so far ... is an inventory and classification of the data embodying the normative principles, terminology and grammatical typology of the genre', write the authors in [...]

SYLVESTER DOUGLAS's Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland has hitherto only been accessible in the form of two manuscripts, one by Douglas himself, the other a copy (dated 1779) [...]

WITH this study of systemic variation between be and have with intransitives in modern English (1700-1900), Mats Ryden and Sverker Brorstrom have provided a thorough and scholarly piece of work [...]

'It is the viewpoint adopted which creates the object studied', said Saussure in his Cours de linguistique generale, and in Ideologies of Language the various contributors attempt to analyse the [...]

|THE drama of linguistic change is enacted not in manuscripts nor inscriptions, but in the mouths and minds of men' wrote H. C. Wyld in his Short History of English [...]