Matthew J. Lauzon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew J. Lauzon plays a role.

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Lauzon, Matthew J. 2011 Linguistic Relativities: Language diversity and modern thought. By John Leavitt Historiographia Linguistica 38:3, pp. 408–414 | Review

Lauzon, Matthew J. 1999 'A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced than any that has yet Appeared': English as a 'perfect' language in eighteenth-century linguistic thought History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 175–182 | Chapter

Lauzon, Matthew J. 1998 Language and Society in Early Modern England: Selected essays 1981–1994. By Vivian Salmon Historiographia Linguistica 25:3, pp. 419–423 | Review

Lauzon, Matthew J. 1996 Savage eloquence in America and the linguistic construction of a British identity in the 18th century Historiographia Linguistica 23:1/2, pp. 123–158 | Article

This paper examines particular aspects of 18th-century British linguistic thought by focusing upon discussions of American Indians which depicted them as poetic and eloquent. The paper places this depiction within the context of the larger British concerns of the time to show how it was used by… read more

Lauzon, Matthew J. 1996 Language and the History of Thought. Edited by Nancy Struever Historiographia Linguistica 23:3, pp. 445–450 | Review