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Author Smith, Olivia.

Title The politics of language, 1791-1819 / Olivia Smith
Published Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1984

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Description xiii, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Contents The problem -- Rights of man and its aftermath -- The pamphleteers: the association, the swinish multitude, Eaton, More, and Spence -- Winged words: language and liberty in John Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley -- The power of the press and the trials of William Hone -- Variations of the languages of men: rustics, peasants, and plough-boys
Analysis England Politics Linguistic aspects, 1790-1820
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [253]-266
Subject English language -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Sociolinguistics -- Great Britain -- History.
Sociolinguistics.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056908
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056909
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943
LC no. 85129759
ISBN 0198128177