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A History of ‘The History of the Language’

Language & Communication, 1986
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it has become a commonplace that the eighteenth century, in which the discourses of prescriptivism predominated, was superseded by a nineteenth-century reaction against such discourses. One such historian has declared that, ‘perhaps the greatest legacy of the nineteenth-century philologist was the ...
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