Carol Percy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Percy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Percy |
| SIGNATURE | PERCY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9871-1745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language and the Grand Tour
Rutten, Gijsbert Kristine Horner
Prescription and Tradition in Language
This book crystallises key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, contextualising case studies across languages and cultures. It breaks new ground with its multilingual approach, helping to balance the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism.
TheLanguages of Nation
This book explores research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives on both institutional and informal mechanisms of prescriptivism, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity.
Robert Lowth and the Critics
This article provides a broad intellectual context for Robert Lowth's (1710-1787)Short Introduction to English Grammar(1762), and in particular for the footnotes or "Critical Notes" in which he documented the grammatical errors of great dead writers. It is well known that Lowth's notes were innovative in the English grammatical tradition, and that they contrasted and qualified the "Examples from the best Writers" in theDictionary of the English L…
Marcus Tomalin. Romanticism and Linguistic Theory
Despite decades of revisionism by both literary and linguistic scholars, the image of politically conservative linguistic prescriptivism still haunts the scholarship of Romantic-era Britain. Several recent and excellent publications on the politics of style may finally dissipate the influence of Olivia Smith’s seminal but somewhat simplistic Politics of Language, 1791-1819 (1984). Language-themed literary studies by Andrew Elfenbein and Jane Hods…
Disciplining Women
On the basis of an analysis of works for children published by Ellenor Fenn (1743-1813) in the 1780s, an argument is offered concerning the significance of English grammar to the domestic education of elite boys and girls. The topic is contextualized in overviews of the high social value of grammar and of the maternal educator, idealized for her 'civilizing' influence, especially on men. Some elite mothers were criticized by Fenn and her contempo…
New approaches to the study of later modern English
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Accounting for Single Status
Interviews are reported in which heterosexual women construct unmarried status as a temporary stage, preparatory to marriage, or the consequence of failure to maintain heterosexual relationships. Remaining single in later life is constructed as a threat, and older single women are constructed as lonely and isolated. Women construct themselves as responsible for the ending of past relationships, and report having been held to account in this way b…
Easy women
Feminist Identifications in a Troubled Society
This article reports selected findings from a programme of postgraduate research which examined women's identifications with feminism in Northern Ireland. This qualitative study used repertory grids and semi-structured interviews to explore the meanings of feminism with a total of 31 women. It shows how women `s perceptions of feminists have affected their decisions about whether or not to identify themselves as such. The data reported here are f…
The Meanings and Impact of Feminism for Women in Northern Ireland
Paradigms for their sex? Women's grammars in late eighteenth-century England
Elizabeth Elstob addressed characteristically if not exclusively female needs by not writing her Old English grammar in Latin. Her successors had humbler aspirations : the few identifiably female eighteenth-century grammarians were mostly among the many schoolteachers who wrote elementary English grammars in the 1780s and 1790s. Those texts written for a female audience constitute a small if distinct subgenre, traditional in linguistic content, b…
Prevalence of diabetes in a Navajo Indian community
The age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) of 494 (76 per cent) Navajo adults living in a reservation community was 10.2 per cent, approximately 60 per cent greater than the estimated prevalence (6.4 per cent) in the general US population. The screening protocol utilized likely underestimates the prevalence of NIDDM in this population. A high proportion of Navajo people were overweight when compared to…
Accounting for Single Status
Interviews are reported in which heterosexual women construct unmarried status as a temporary stage, preparatory to marriage, or the consequence of failure to maintain heterosexual relationships. Remaining single in later life is constructed as a threat, and older single women are constructed as lonely and isolated. Women construct themselves as responsible for the ending of past relationships, and report having been held to account in this way b…
Feminist Identifications in a Troubled Society
This article reports selected findings from a programme of postgraduate research which examined women's identifications with feminism in Northern Ireland. This qualitative study used repertory grids and semi-structured interviews to explore the meanings of feminism with a total of 31 women. It shows how women `s perceptions of feminists have affected their decisions about whether or not to identify themselves as such. The data reported here are f…
Prevalence of diabetes in a Navajo Indian community
The age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) of 494 (76 per cent) Navajo adults living in a reservation community was 10.2 per cent, approximately 60 per cent greater than the estimated prevalence (6.4 per cent) in the general US population. The screening protocol utilized likely underestimates the prevalence of NIDDM in this population. A high proportion of Navajo people were overweight when compared to…
Paradigms for their sex? Women's grammars in late eighteenth-century England
Elizabeth Elstob addressed characteristically if not exclusively female needs by not writing her Old English grammar in Latin. Her successors had humbler aspirations : the few identifiably female eighteenth-century grammarians were mostly among the many schoolteachers who wrote elementary English grammars in the 1780s and 1790s. Those texts written for a female audience constitute a small if distinct subgenre, traditional in linguistic content, b…
Easy women
Prevalence of diabetes in a Navajo Indian community
The age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) of 494 (76 per cent) Navajo adults living in a reservation community was 10.2 per cent, approximately 60 per cent greater than the estimated prevalence (6.4 per cent) in the general US population. The screening protocol utilized likely underestimates the prevalence of NIDDM in this population. A high proportion of Navajo people were overweight when compared to…
The Meanings and Impact of Feminism for Women in Northern Ireland
Paradigms for their sex? Women's grammars in late eighteenth-century England
Elizabeth Elstob addressed characteristically if not exclusively female needs by not writing her Old English grammar in Latin. Her successors had humbler aspirations : the few identifiably female eighteenth-century grammarians were mostly among the many schoolteachers who wrote elementary English grammars in the 1780s and 1790s. Those texts written for a female audience constitute a small if distinct subgenre, traditional in linguistic content, b…
Feminist Identifications in a Troubled Society
This article reports selected findings from a programme of postgraduate research which examined women's identifications with feminism in Northern Ireland. This qualitative study used repertory grids and semi-structured interviews to explore the meanings of feminism with a total of 31 women. It shows how women `s perceptions of feminists have affected their decisions about whether or not to identify themselves as such. The data reported here are f…
Easy women
Accounting for Single Status
Interviews are reported in which heterosexual women construct unmarried status as a temporary stage, preparatory to marriage, or the consequence of failure to maintain heterosexual relationships. Remaining single in later life is constructed as a threat, and older single women are constructed as lonely and isolated. Women construct themselves as responsible for the ending of past relationships, and report having been held to account in this way b…
Disciplining Women
On the basis of an analysis of works for children published by Ellenor Fenn (1743-1813) in the 1780s, an argument is offered concerning the significance of English grammar to the domestic education of elite boys and girls. The topic is contextualized in overviews of the high social value of grammar and of the maternal educator, idealized for her 'civilizing' influence, especially on men. Some elite mothers were criticized by Fenn and her contempo…
New approaches to the study of later modern English
Preview this article: Introduction, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.33.1-2.03bea-1.gif
Marcus Tomalin. Romanticism and Linguistic Theory
Despite decades of revisionism by both literary and linguistic scholars, the image of politically conservative linguistic prescriptivism still haunts the scholarship of Romantic-era Britain. Several recent and excellent publications on the politics of style may finally dissipate the influence of Olivia Smith’s seminal but somewhat simplistic Politics of Language, 1791-1819 (1984). Language-themed literary studies by Andrew Elfenbein and Jane Hods…
TheLanguages of Nation
This book explores research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives on both institutional and informal mechanisms of prescriptivism, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity.
Robert Lowth and the Critics
This article provides a broad intellectual context for Robert Lowth's (1710-1787)Short Introduction to English Grammar(1762), and in particular for the footnotes or "Critical Notes" in which he documented the grammatical errors of great dead writers. It is well known that Lowth's notes were innovative in the English grammatical tradition, and that they contrasted and qualified the "Examples from the best Writers" in theDictionary of the English L…
Prescription and Tradition in Language
This book crystallises key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, contextualising case studies across languages and cultures. It breaks new ground with its multilingual approach, helping to balance the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism.
Rutten, Gijsbert Kristine Horner
Language and the Grand Tour
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)