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Rather, grammarians necessarily choose particular domains to address, ‘according to linguistic and user-related criteria’ (Graustein and Leitner 1989: 9), with certain criteria privileging certain sources for those data. For example, some grammarians have been concerned exclusively with an educated, prestige-laden, style of English attested in the writings of especially admired authors.
Jun 17, 2021 · As an Enlightenment thinker, Smith desired explanation and evidence. Since the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium early in the first century BC, the orator’s art had been divided into invention, arrangement, expression, memory, and delivery. Smith’s early lectures on rhetoric discarded this taxonomical approach to oratorical language in ...
- John Hodgson, Ann Harris
- 2021
Aug 28, 2018 · The main sources on grammarians, in addition to their own works, are to be found, for the Greeks, in the Souda’s biographical entries (a Byzantine encyclopedic dictionary from the end of the 10th century), Sextus Empiricus (Against the Professors), and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives of the Philosophers); for the Latins, in Suetonius (De grammaticis et rhetoribus), Gellius (Noctes Atticae), and ...
May 6, 2002 · Thomas of Erfurt was the most influential member of a group of later medieval philosophers known as the speculative grammarians or Modistae (Modists), after the central place they assigned to the modi significandi (modes of signification) of a word in their analyses of human discourse. The notion that a word, once it has been imposed to signify, carries with it all of its syntactical modes, or ...
Feb 17, 2021 · Biesta argues against the idea of evidence-based practice because it draws on a “causal model of professional action” (2007, 7), where teachers who follow an agreed approach will all achieve the same outcomes. This is an impoverished and limiting understanding of teaching and learning, which diminishes teacher professionalism and ignores the complexity of teacher mediation of learning.
Sep 7, 2016 · The main response of universal grammarians to such findings is that children have the competence with grammar but that other factors can impede their performance and thus both hide the true nature ...
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May 8, 2015 · Abstract. This paper explores the evolution of the English language grammar from a historical perspective. (with an excursus into the Sanskrit grammar), examines its ancient Greek roots and the ...
