The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
Author: De Witt T. Starnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 435
Release: 1991-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277729

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.

Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages

Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages
Author: Robert Lewis Collison
Publisher: [New York] : Hafner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1971
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Annotated bibliography comprising a literature survey of dictionarys of English and other languages - includes historical notes and a listing of dictionaries of technology and other specialized dictionaries, etc.

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755
Author: DeWitt Talmage Starnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1991
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027245444

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.