Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected Essays, 1981-1994

Abstract

1. Editor's Foreword 2. I. Surveys of 16th and 17th Century Linguistic Scholarship 3. 1. Effort and Achievement in 17th-Century British Linguistics 4. 2. Anglo-Dutch Linguistic Scholarship 5. 3. Views on Meaning in 16th-Century England 6. 4. Language Politics of the 16th and 17th-Century English Church 7. II. On Universal and Individual Traits of Language 8. 5. William Bedell and the Universal Language Movement in 17th-Century Ireland 9. 6.Wh- and Yes/No Questions: Charles Butler's Grammar (1633) and the history of a linguistic concept 10. 7. Nathaniel Chamberlain and his Tractatus de Literis et Lingua Philosophica (1679) 11. III. Language Learning and Language Instruction 12. 8. Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics 13. 9. The Study of Foreign Languages in 17th-Century England 14. 10. Arabists and Linguists in England in the 17th Century 15. 11. Missionary Linguistics in 17th-Century Ireland 16. 12. Bathsua Makin (1600-c.1673): A pioneer linguist and feminist 17. Appendix: List of Publications by Vivian Salmon, 1988-1996 18. Index of Personal Names 19. Index of Subjects, Terms and Languages