The Language Wars

  Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill (eds), Language Myths (London: Penguin, 1998)

  Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable, A History of the English Language, 5th edn (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002)

  John Baugh, Beyond Ebonics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)

  Joan C. Beal, English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999)

  —— English in Modern Times, 1700–1945 (London: Arnold, 2004)

  Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera and Massimo Sturiale (eds), Perspectives on Prescriptivism (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008)

  Cave Beck, The Universal Character (London: Thomas Maxey, 1657) Antony Beevor, Stalingrad (London: Viking, 1988)

  A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (eds), London 1500–1700: The Making of the Metropolis (London: Longman, 1986)

  Henri Béjoint, The Lexicography of English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

  Alexander Melville Bell, World-English: The Universal Language (New York: N. D. C. Hodges, 1888)

  Masha Bell, Understanding English Spelling (Cambridge: Pegasus, 2004)

  Drake Bennett, ‘Thinking literally: the surprising ways that metaphors shape your world’, Boston Globe, 27 September 2009

  Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris (eds), New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005)

  Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web (London: Orion, 1999)

  Christina Bewley and David Bewley, Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998)

  Ambrose Bierce, Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults (New York: Walter Neale, 1909)

  Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995)

  Barbara M. Birch, The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society (London: Routledge, 2009)

  Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (New York: Faber, 2006)

  Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, ed. Harold F. Harding, 2 vols (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965)

  W. Martin Bloomer (ed.), The Contest of Language: Before and Beyond Nationalism (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)

  Leonard Bloomfield, An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell, 1914)

  —— Language (New York: Henry Holt, 1933)

  Thomas Blount, Glossographia (London: Thomas Newcomb, 1656)

  Dwight Bolinger, Language: The Loaded Weapon (London: Longman, 1980)

  W. F. Bolton, The Language of 1984 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)

  W. F. Bolton and David Crystal (eds), The English Language: Essays by Linguists and Men of Letters 1858–1964 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969)

  Edward Brerewood, Enquiries Touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions (London: John Bill, 1614)

  Charlotte Brewer, Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007)

  Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain (New York: Morgan Road, 2006)

  G. L. Brook, The Language of Dickens (London: André Deutsch, 1970)

  Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars (New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 1851)

  James Buchanan, An Essay towards Establishing a Standard for an Elegant and Uniform Pronunciation of the English Language (London: E. & C. Dilly, 1766)

  William Bullokar, The Booke at Large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English Speech (London: Henry Denham, 1580)

  —— Aesop’s Fables in True Orthography (London: Edmund Bollifant, 1585)

  Oliver Bell Bunce, Don’t: A Manual of Mistakes and Improprieties more or less prevalent in Conduct and Speech, 3rd edn (London: Field & Tuer, 1884)

  Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air (London: Vintage, 1993)

  Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds), Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language (Cambridge: Polity, 1991)

  David Burnley, The History of the English Language: A source book, 2nd edn (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000)

  Kate Burridge, Blooming English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

  —— Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further observations on the tangled history of the English language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

  Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge, 1997)

  Henry Butter, What’s the Harm of Fornication? (London: G. Berger, 1864)

  Jeremy Butterfield, Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

  Louis-Jean Calvet, Language Wars and Linguistic Politics, trans. Michael Petheram (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

  William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine (London: Simon Waterson, 1605)

  Deborah Cameron, Verbal Hygiene (London: Routledge, 1995)

  —— (ed.), The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 1998)

  Jason Camlot, Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)

  John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses (London: Faber, 1992)

  —— William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (London: Faber, 2009)

  Edward Carney, A Survey of English Spelling (London: Routledge, 1994)

  Ronald Carter, Investigating English Discourse: Language, Literacy and Literature (London: Routledge, 1997)

  Simon Caulkin, ‘English, language of lost chances’, Observer, 24 July 2005

  Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien, Weird English (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004)

  Noam Chomsky, Language and Responsibility (London: Harvester, 1979)

  Kenneth Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: William Morrow, 1990)

  Jennifer Coates, Women, Men and Language, 3rd edn (Harlow: Longman, 2004)

  William Cobbett, A Grammar of the English Language, 3rd edn (London: Thomas Dolby, 1819)

  —— A Grammar of the English Language, with an additional chapter on pronunciation by James Paul Cobbett (London: Charles Griffin, 1866)

  Murray Cohen, Sensible Words: Linguistic Practice in England 1640–1785 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977)

  William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson (eds), Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

  Elisha Coles, Nolens Volens (London: Andrew Clark, 1675)

  Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837, 2nd edn (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005)

  John Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)

  Penelope J. Corfield (ed.), Language, History and Class (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)

  Jonathan Cott (ed.), Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)

  Basil Cottle, The Plight of English (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975)

  Florian Coulmas, Writing Systems: An Introduction to their Linguistic Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

  Brian Cox (ed.), Literacy Is Not Enough: Essays on the Importance of Reading (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)

  William A. Craigie, The Critique of Pure English: From Caxton to Smollett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946)

  James Crawford (ed.), Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)

  Simon Critchley, On Humour (London: Routledge, 2002)

  Tony Crowley, Proper English? Readings in Language, History and Cultural Identity (London: Routledge, 1991)

  —— Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537–2004 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

  David Crystal, The Cambridge Encylopedia of Language, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

  —— Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  —— Who Cares about En
glish Usage? 2nd edn (London: Penguin, 2000)

  —— The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

  —— English as a Global Language, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

  —— The Language Revolution (Cambridge: Polity, 2004)

  —— The Stories of English (London: Allen Lane, 2004)

  —— Language and the Internet, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

  —— The Fight for English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

  —— txtng: the gr8 db8 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

  Jonathan Culler, Saussure, rev. edn (London: Fontana, 1987)

  Anne Curzan and Michael Adams, How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction, 2nd edn (New York: Pearson Longman, 2009)

  Martin Cutts and Chrissie Maher, The Plain English Story (Stockport: Plain English Campaign, 1986)

  Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger (London: Allen Lane, 2002)

  James Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)

  Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

  Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects (London: Thomas Cockerill, 1697)

  Jacques Derrida, Positions, trans. Alan Bass (London: Athlone, 1981)

  Jean-Louis Dessalles, Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language, trans. James Grieve (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

  Guy Deutscher, The Unfolding of Language (London: Arrow, 2006)

  Ellin Devis, The Accidence; or First Rudiments of English Grammar, 3rd edn (London: T. Beecroft, 1777)

  Thomas Dilworth, A New Guide to the English Tongue, 13th edn (London: Henry Kent, 1751)

  E. J. Dobson, English Pronunciation 1500–1700, 2 vols, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

  Marina Dossena and Charles Jones (eds), Insights into Late Modern English (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003)

  Maureen Dowd, ‘Liberties; Niggardly City’, New York Times, 31 January 1999

  John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay (London: Henry Herringman, 1668)

  —— Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay (London: Henry Herringman, 1684)

  Sarah Dunant (ed.), The War of the Words: The Political Correctness Debate (London: Virago, 1994)

  Terry Eagleton, After Theory (London: Allen Lane, 2003)

  Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Language and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

  Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

  Andrew Elfenbein, Romanticism and the Rise of English (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009)

  Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, 5 vols (London: Trübner, 1869–89)

  William Enfield, The Speaker (London: Joseph Johnson, 1774)

  John S. Farmer (ed.), Americanisms – Old and New (London: Thomas Poulter, 1889)

  Barbara A. Fennell, A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)

  Daniel Fenning, The Universal Spelling Book (London: Crowder & Woodgate, 1756)

  Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath (eds), Language in the USA (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)

  Edward Finegan, Attitudes Toward English Usage (New York: Teachers College Press, 1980)

  Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford (eds), Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

  Ann Fisher, A New Grammar: Being the Most Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Properly and Correctly, 2nd edn (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: I. Thompson, 1750)

  John H. Fisher, The Emergence of Standard English (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996)

  Joshua A. Fishman, In Praise of the Beloved Language: A Comparative View of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997)

  Maureen A. Flanagan, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

  John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes (London: Edward Blount, 1598)

  Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (London: Tavistock, 1970)

  H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, ed. David Crystal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

  H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, The King’s English (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906)

  —— The King’s English, 2nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906)

  Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century (London: Allen Lane, 2005)

  Joseph H. Friend, The Development of American Lexicography 1798–1864 (The Hague: Mouton, 1967)

  Webb Garrison, with Cheryl Garrison, The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage (Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2001)

  Mark Garvey, Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style (New York: Touchstone, 2009)

  Alexander Gil, Logonomia Anglica, 2nd edn (London: John Beale, 1621)

  Stephen Gill, Wordsworth: A Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)

  Malcolm Gillies and David Pear, Portrait of Percy Grainger (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002)

  E. Ward Gilman (ed.), Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1994)

  Robin Gilmour, The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel (London: Allen & Unwin, 1981)

  Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (London: Allen Lane, 2008)

  Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing (London: E. Cotes, 1661)

  —— Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the way to Science (London: E. Cotes, 1665)

  —— Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion (London: J. D., 1676)

  Andrew Goatly, Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007)

  W. Terrence Gordon, C. K. Ogden: A Bio-bibliographic Study (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990)

  Mina Gorji (ed.), Rude Britannia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007)

  Manfred Görlach, Studies in the History of the English Language (Heidelberg: Winter, 1990)

  —— Introduction to Early Modern English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

  —— New Studies in the History of English (Heidelberg: Winter, 1995)

  —— English in Nineteenth-Century England: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

  —— Eighteenth-Century English (Heidelberg: Winter, 2001)

  —— Explorations in English Historical Linguistics (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002)

  James Gorman, ‘Like, Uptalk?’, New York Times, 15 August 1993

  Edward S. Gould, Good English; or, Popular Errors in Language (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1867)

  Philip Babcock Gove (ed.), Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged, 2 vols (Springfield, MA: G. &. C. Merriam, 1961)

  Ernest Gowers, ABC of Plain Words (London: HM Stationery Office, 1951)

  David Graddol, English Next (London: The British Council, 2006)

  David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann (eds), English: History, Diversity and Change (London: Routledge, 1996)

  Susan-Mary Grant and Brian Holden Reid (eds), Themes of the American Civil War, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2010)

  William Greaves, ‘Selling English by the Pound’, The Times, 24 October 1989

  J. R. Green, A Short History of the English People (London: Macmillan, 1874)

  Jonathon Green, Chambers Slang Dictionary (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2008)

  Sidney Greenbaum, Good English and the Grammarian (London: Longman, 1988)

  Ezra Greenspan (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
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