Abstract

The present study elucidates the grammatical systems and descriptions of Ann Fisher’s A New Grammar (1750) in the context of the contemporary awareness of an emerging need for grammar to standardize spoken English usage. Based on these considerations, this study shows that for the first time in the history of English grammar writing, her grammar treats only spoken English as the subject of study, offers a significant insight into Augustan English, and includes syntax and syntactic punctuation within the scope of grammar apart from morphology. And also, since Ann, as a school teacher, was highly innovative, she rejected an excessive reliance on memory and introduced some novelties that were ahead of her time, which justly came along with the rigor of didactic-oriented pedagogical science, for instance, the use of various teaching aids and the exercises of bad English. Thus, her grammar should be regarded as the most successful pedagogical grammar in the early eighteenth century. (Chungnam National University)

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