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Democratic Eloquence
Kenneth Cmiel
其他書名
The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-century America
出版University of California Press, 1991-01-01
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricPolitical Science / Public Policy / General
ISBN05200748589780520074859
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GbkB6VfLvsIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Democratic Eloquence tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth century rudely challenged gentlemanly assumptions that only the well-educated should be able to speak in public. The popular challenge stimulated discussions about how grammars, dictionaries, even the English Bible should be written and what the idiom of a democratic society should be.