As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the
Mitchell (San Jose State U.) examines linguistic change and the controversies over the teaching and study of grammar in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, based on research from over 300 gram
This collection examines the nature of letter-writing manuals and what they meant within their own contexts and those of their time. The result, which also includes considerations of epistolary theory
