An Essay Towards Establishing a Standard for an Elegant and Uniform Pronunciation of the English Language, ... by James Buchanan,

An Essay Towards Establishing a Standard for an Elegant and Uniform Pronunciation of the English Language, ... by James Buchanan,
Author: James Buchanan
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379378761

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T087971 With a final errata leaf. London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766. xxvii, [333]p.; 8°

The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791

The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Author: Tetsuro Hayashi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027281319

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).

The Handbook of Dialectology

The Handbook of Dialectology
Author: Charles Boberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 909
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118827589

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Shakespeare's Accents

Shakespeare's Accents
Author: Sonia Massai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108429629

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.