Carol Percy
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carol Percy plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0302-5160 | E-ISSN 1569-9781
Articles
2024 Gender, genre, and prescriptivism: Eighteenth-century female playwrights’ use of you was and you were Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 60–84 | Chapter
This paper extends our previous study of you was and you were in eighteenth-century English drama, examining trends following Robert Lowth’s proscription of you was in his grammar (1762) and complementing Tieken-Boon van Ostade’s (2002) and Laitinen’s (2009) studies of different genres.… read more
2022 Chapter 11. Theatrical practices and grammatical standardization in eighteenth-century Britain: you was and you were English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 263–286 | Chapter
This chapter extends the discussion of second-person pronouns and of eighteenth-century language norms by examining three playwrights’ use of you was in the period before its proscription by grammarians like Robert Lowth (1762). Our analysis corroborates historical sociolinguistic surveys by… read more
2015 Political perspectives on linguistic innovation in independent America: Learning from the libraries of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 37–53 | Article
In this study, I focus the large subject of Late Modern English in newly independent America through the lens of the politician and scholar Thomas
Jefferson. Drawing on evidence relating to the several libraries he assembled serially over his lifetime, especially on catalogues and correspondence,… read more
2012 Robert Lowth and the Critics: Literary contexts for the “Critical Notes” in his Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) Robert Lowth (1710-1787): The making of his grammar and its influence, Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid (ed.), pp. 9–26 | Article
This article provides a broad intellectual context for Robert Lowth’s (1710–1787) Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), and in particular for the footnotes or “Critical Notes” in which he documented the grammatical errors of great dead writers. It is well known that Lowth’s notes were… read more
2011 Review of Jucker (2009): Early Modern English News Discourse. Newspapers, Pamphlets and Scientific News Discourse Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 309–313 | Review
2010 How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 55–85 | Article
Contributing to studies of standardization in mid eighteenth-century Britain, this paper draws on a corpus of criticism in the new review periodicals in order to explain reviewers’ enthusiastic enforcement of linguistically prescriptive rules. Reflecting consumers’ need for guidance in an expanding… read more
2006 New approaches to the study of later modern English New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 1–9 | Introduction
2006 Disciplining women? Grammar, gender, and leisure in the works of Ellenor Fenn (1743–1813) New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 109–137 | Article
On the basis of an analysis of works for children published by Ellenor Fenn (1743–1813) in the 1780s, an argument is offered concerning the significance of English grammar to the domestic education of elite boys and girls. The topic is contextualized in overviews of the high social value of… read more
2004 Consumers of correctness: Men, women, and language in eighteenth-century classified advertisements New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Article
