A Dictionary Of The English Language An Anthology
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A Dictionary Of The English Language An Anthology
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-11-30
A Dictionary Of The English Language An Anthology written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with Reference categories.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal, will contain a selection from the original, offering memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.
Fixing Babel
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Author : Rebecca Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-02
Fixing Babel written by Rebecca Shapiro and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important texts in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas to readers, their “end users.” Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries compiled during this time and published by national academies, the goal of English dictionaries was usually not to “purify” the language, though some writers did attempt to regularize it. Instead, English lexicographers aimed to teach practical ways for their users to learn English, improve their language skills, even transcend their social class. The anthology strives to be comprehensive in its coverage of the first phase of this tradition from the early seventeenth century—from Robert Cawdrey’s (1604) A Table Alphabeticall, to Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), and finally, to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). The book puts English dictionaries in historical, national, linguistic, literary, cultural contexts, presenting lexicographical trends and the change in the English language over two centuries, and examines how writers attempted to control it by appealing to various pedagogical and legal authorities. Moreover, the development of dictionary and attempts to codify English language and grammar coincided with the arc of the British Empire; the promulgation of “proper” English has been a subject of debate and inquiry for centuries and, in part, dictionaries and the teaching of English historically have been used to present and support ideas about what is correct, regardless of how and where English is actually used. The authors who wrote these texts apply ideas about capitalism, nationalism, sex and social status to favor one language theory over another. I show how dictionaries are not neutral documents: they challenge or promote biases. The book presents and analyzes the history of lexicography, demonstrating how and why dictionaries evolved into the reference books we now often take for granted and we can see that there is no easy answer to the question of “who owns English.”
Preface To A Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Preface To A Dictionary Of The English Language written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who labored under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time".
Johnson S Dictionary
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Allen Lane
Release Date : 2005
Johnson S Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by Allen Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with English language categories.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontes and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal, will contain a selection from the original, offering memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations By Examples From The Best Writers Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with English language categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
A Dictionary Of The English Language written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with English language categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language
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Author : Robert Gordon Latham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
A Dictionary Of The English Language written by Robert Gordon Latham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with English language categories.
A Dictionary Of The English Language
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
A Dictionary Of The English Language written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
Dictionary Of Early English
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Author : Joseph T. Shipley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1955-01-15
Dictionary Of Early English written by Joseph T. Shipley and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955-01-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
An alphabetical discussion of words from early English authors, including the most interesting, informative—and revivable—English words that have lapsed from general use. Includes: 1) Words likely to be met in literary reading. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, the Tudor pamphlets and translations, are richly represented in words and illustrative quotations. The late 18th and early 19th century revival has been culled: Chatterton, Ossian; Percy’s Reliques and Child’s Ballads; Scott, in his effort to bring picturesque words back into use. In addition, anthologies, for the general reader or the student, have been examined, and works they include combed for forgotten words. 2) Words that belong to the history of early England, describing or illuminating social conditions, political (e.g. feudal) divisions or distinctions, and all the ways of living, of thinking and feeling, in earlier times. Anxiety, for example, is indicated, not in the 99 phobias listed in a psychiatric glossary of the 1950s but in the 120 methods (see areomancy) of determining the future. 3) Words that in various ways have special interest, as in meaning, background, or associated folklore. Included in this group are various imaginary beings, and a number of magic or medicinal plants. 4) Words that are not in the general vocabulary today, but might be usefully and pleasantly revived.
The English Studies Book
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Author : Rob Pope
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
The English Studies Book written by Rob Pope and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Designed specifically for students studying English language and/or literature at universities and colleges, this textbook combines critical dictionary, anthology and study guide. It is inter-disciplinary in approach and flexible in its range of applications.