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  title info:
    title: Rules of use
    sub title: language and instruction in early modern England
  name:
    name part: Lamb, Julian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 189 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "We take it for granted that we can use words properly - appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use "proper." Given that properness is determined by the unpredictable vagaries of unrepeatable contexts, it is impossible to formulate an absolute rule which tells what is proper in every situation.In its four case studies of texts by Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster, and the first English dictionary writers, Rules of Use shows the way in which early modern pedagogues attempted to articulate such a rule whilst being mindful that proper use can neither be determined by any single rule, nor definitively described in examples.Using the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell's influential reading of it, Rules of Use argues that early modern pedagogues became entangled in a sceptical problem: aspiring to formulate a definitive rule of proper use, their own instruction begins to appear uncertain and lacking in assurance when they find such a rule cannot be expressed"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1.Towards a Grammar of UsePedagogy and Scepticism The Augustinian Picture of Language Context Use, Usual, Useful 2. Using Perfection: Roger Ascham's Toxophilus and The Scholemaster Taking Aim: ToxophilusAscham's Scepticism: The Scholemaster, Book 1'The daily use of writing': The Scholemaster, Book 23. Decorous Abuse: George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesy Decorum and the Critics The Art of Ambiguity Usual Speech: The Eye and the Ear Solace4. Usual Spelling: Richard Mulcaster's The First Part of the Elementarie Jonathan Goldberg's Reading of Mulcaster's Elementarie GroundsSound TrainingSound, Reason, CustomRules and Use5. Arts of Use: Early English Dictionaries, 1604-1658Context Johnson's Dictionary: Aspiration and Resignation 'Hard usuall English wordes'An Unused Siding BibliographyIndex.
  note: Julian Lamb.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Usage
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: English language
    geographic: England
    topic: Usage
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: History
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: England
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
  classification: PE1103 .L26 2014
  classification: 428.0071/042
  classification: LAN009000
  identifier: 9780567238191 (hardback)
  identifier: 0567238199 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781472531773 (epub)
  identifier: 9781472534552 (epdf)
  identifier: 2014009528
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140418
    record change date: 20151206123736.0
    record identifier: in00003519137
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng