Eighteenth-Century English

1. Attitudes and concerns in eighteenth-century English Raymond Hickey; 2. Prescriptivism and the suppression of variation Joan Beal; 3. Women's grammars Carol Percy; 4. Eighteenth-century women and their norms of correctness Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade; 5. Lowth as an icon of prescriptivism Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade; 6. Queeney Thrale and the teaching of English grammar Karlijn Navest; 7. Coalitions, networks, and discourse communities in Augustan England: The Spectator and the early eighteenth-century essay Susan Fitzmaurice; 8. Contextualizing eighteenth-century politeness: social distinction and metaphorical levelling Terttu Nevalainen and Heli Tissari; 9. Expressive speech acts and politeness in eighteenth-century English Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker; 10. Variation and change in eighteenth-century English Richard W. Bailey; 11. Variation in sentential complements in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English: a processing-based explanation Teresa Fanego; 12. Nationality and standardisation in eighteenth-century Scotland Charles Jones; 13. English in eighteenth-century Ireland Raymond Hickey; 14. Changes and continuities in dialect grammar Bernd Kortmann and Susanne Wagner; 15. 'Be pleased to report expressly': the development of a public style in late modern English business and official correspondence Marina Dossena; 16. Registering the language - dictionaries, diction and the art of elocution Lynda Mugglestone.