A Key to the Art of Letters: An English Grammar for the Eighteenth Century
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A Key to the Art of Letters : An English Grammar for the Eighteenth Century. / Jensen-Rix, Robert William.
In: Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature, Vol. 92, No. 3, 2008, p. 545-557.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - A Key to the Art of Letters
T2 - An English Grammar for the Eighteenth Century
AU - Jensen-Rix, Robert William
N1 - Paper id:: 0028-2677
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The article examines A. Lane's grammar A Key to the Art of Letters and its contexts. Symbolically published at the threshold to the eighteenth century, Lane presents an unusually bold plan to make English a world language. Although Lane's book holds a key position in the development of English grammatical theory, there has been no comprehensive study of its innovative methods and radical proposals for a new national curriculum. Its challenge to Latin and French is analyzed in a historical perspective, and the impact of Lane's ideas during the eighteenth century is traced. The article shows that Lane is the first to use English as the basis for writing universal grammar, as part of his strategy to promote English as a universal code for learning and science
AB - The article examines A. Lane's grammar A Key to the Art of Letters and its contexts. Symbolically published at the threshold to the eighteenth century, Lane presents an unusually bold plan to make English a world language. Although Lane's book holds a key position in the development of English grammatical theory, there has been no comprehensive study of its innovative methods and radical proposals for a new national curriculum. Its challenge to Latin and French is analyzed in a historical perspective, and the impact of Lane's ideas during the eighteenth century is traced. The article shows that Lane is the first to use English as the basis for writing universal grammar, as part of his strategy to promote English as a universal code for learning and science
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Grammar
KW - Eighteenth Century
KW - Linguistics
KW - Philology
U2 - 10.1007/s11061-007-9096-2
DO - 10.1007/s11061-007-9096-2
M3 - Journal article
VL - 92
SP - 545
EP - 557
JO - Neophilologus
JF - Neophilologus
SN - 0028-2677
IS - 3
ER -
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