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Date: 12-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: John Ash and the Rise of the Children's Grammar: Navest


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Title: John Ash and the Rise of the Children's Grammar 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Karlijn Navest

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930614 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

>From the second half of the eighteenth century onwards a knowledge of 
grammar served as an important marker of class in England. In order to 
enable their children to rise in society, middle-class parents expected their 
sons and daughters to learn English grammar. Since England did not have an 
Academy which would produce an authoritative grammar, many individuals 
took it upon themselves to compose grammars, and the Baptist minister 
John Ash (1724?-1779) was one of them. Ash's Grammatical Institutes 
(1760) was originally written for the author's five year-old daughter and was 
printed for the use of his schoolmaster friends. The grammar became 
available to a wide public in 1766 when it was published in London, as The 
Easiest Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar. Unlike Robert Lowth, 
whose grammar was regarded as being too difficult for beginners, Ash fared 
much better in producing an elementary manual, and it consequently played 
an important role in the rise of the children's grammar.

Making extensive use of primary source materials such as grammars, letters,
reviews and newspaper advertisements, this study contributes to existing
scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century grammars and grammarians.
It provides an in-depth study of Ash's Grammatical Institutes and its 
influence on other popular grammars for children, such as those written by 
Lady Ellenor Fenn and the nineteenth-century female grammarians.
This book is of interest to sociohistorical linguists working in the field of
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century grammar-writing, as well as to book 
historians and historians of education and children's literature. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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