Description: Rules of Use : Language and Instruction in Early Modern England, Paperback by Lamb, Julian, ISBN 147427546X, ISBN-13 9781474275460, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "We take it for granted that we can use words properly - appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use "proper." Given that properness is determined by the unpredictable vagaries of unrepeatable contexts, it is impossible to formulate an absolute rule which tells what is proper in every its four case studies of texts by Ascham, Puttenham, Mulcaster, and the first English dictionary writers, Rules of Use shows the way in which early modern pedagogues attempted to articulate such a rule whilst being mindful that proper use can neither be determined by any single rule, nor definitively described in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell's influential reading of it, Rules of Use argues that early modern pedagogues became entangled in a sceptical problem: aspiring to formulate a definitive rule of proper use, their own instruction begins to appear uncertain and lacking in assurance when they find such a rule cannot be expressed"--
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Book Title: Rules of Use : Language and Instruction in Early Modern England
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Rules of Use : Language and Instruction in Early Modern England
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Grammar & Punctuation, Study & Teaching, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Julian Lamb
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
