John Newbery'sAn easy introduction to the English language(1745): audience, origin and the question of authorship
| Autor: | Karlijn Navest, Anni Sairio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Literature Linguistics and Language Grammar business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts English language Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Georgian Rule-based machine translation Reading (process) 0602 languages and literature Encyclopedia language Sociology business 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Philological Society. 111:242-258 |
| ISSN: | 0079-1636 |
| Popis: | An Easy Introduction to the English Language (1745) is the grammar in the Circle of the Sciences series, a children's encyclopaedia published by John Newbery. The volumes in the Circle series were established reading material for boys and girls in Georgian England, and the grammar targeted a broad audience of children, young men and women and non-native speakers. A comparison between James Greenwood's (1711) and (1737) popular works shows that the Circle grammar was largely plagiarised from Greenwood's grammars. The grammar is generally attributed to Newbery, but an advertisement in the London Gazette links the Circle series to author and playwright Eliza Haywood. |
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