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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The new world of words: or a General English dictionary
The New World of Words: Or a General English Dictionary. Containing Ye Proper Significations, and Etimologies of All Words Not Vulgarly Known Derived from Other Languages and Used for the Adornment of Our English Tongue. Together with the Definitions of
Author: Edward PhillipsThe First Century of English Monolingual Lexicography
Author: Kusujiro MiyoshiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443893463
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702. The major scholarly reference works which individually treat early English dictionaries are De Witt Starnes and Gertrude Noyes’s English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604–1755 (1946) and The Oxford History of English Lexicography (2009) edited by A. P. Cowie. However, when we proceed with reading the dictionaries with primary attention to their provision of lexical information, an array of deficiencies in Starnes and Noyes’s account stands out. There are two main reasons for these deficiencies; one is the fact that Starnes and Noyes’s analyses of the dictionaries are mainly made in accordance with the contents of their title pages and introductory materials, and the other is that the two authorities are excessively conscious of the external history of the dictionaries they discuss. The method of investigation of the dictionaries in this book differs greatly from these previous studies. Through it, various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, come to be revealed, including not only an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases, but also the highly creative use of other dictionaries in one specific dictionary, as well as the previously unrecognized direct and indirect influence of one dictionary on others.
The New World of English Words
Author: Edward PhillipsAshgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Author: John ConsidinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351870254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.
The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791
Author: Tetsuro HayashiPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027209596
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known "English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755," by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process, Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory, starting with John Palsgrave's "Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse" (1530), to John Walker's "A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language" (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson's influential "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Joseph Emerson WorcesterPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1868
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Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
Author: David MicklethwaitPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
A Manual of English Literature
Author: John Seely HartPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The new world of English words
Author: Edward PhillipsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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