The Cambridge Companion To English Dictionaries
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| Author | : Sarah Ogilvie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2020-09-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108568459 |
How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.
| Author | : Neil Corcoran |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2007-12-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113982810X |
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
| Author | : Elaine Aston |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2009-12-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0521493226 |
Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.
| Author | : Sarah Ogilvie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107021839 |
Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.
| Author | : Juliane Hammer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2013-08-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107002419 |
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the past and present of American Muslim communities. Chapters discuss demographics, political participation, media, cultural and literary production, conversion, religious practice, education, mosque building, interfaith dialogue, and marriage and family, as well as American Muslim thought and Sufi communities. No comparable volume exists to date.
| Author | : Robert Audi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1312 |
| Release | : 2015-05-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9781107643796 |
This is the leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers to appear in English in more than half a century. Written by a team of more than 550 experts and now widely translated, it contains approximately 5,000 entries ranging from short definitions to longer articles. It is designed to facilitate the understanding of philosophy at all levels and in all fields. Key features of this third edition: • 500 new entries covering Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and covering individual countries such as China, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain • Increased coverage of such growing fields as ethics and philosophy of mind • More than 100 new intellectual portraits of leading contemporary thinkers • Wider coverage of Continental philosophy • Dozens of new technical concepts in cognitive science and other areas • Enhanced cross-referencing to add context and increase understanding • Expansions in both text and index to facilitate research and browsing
| Author | : Shaun Richards |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2004-01-29 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521008730 |
| Author | : Edward Finegan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-07-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781108836241 |
There is no such thing as 'the dictionary'. Rather, there are innumerable kinds of dictionaries that respond to their authors' aspirations and their users' needs. In each case, the negotiation among a dictionary's material, its authors, and its readers tells a rich cultural story. Bringing together cutting-edge research from an international team of experts, this interdisciplinary Handbook provides an all-encompassing account of dictionaries in context. Organized into five thematic parts, its chapters cover a multitude of topics such as types of dictionaries, the place of dictionaries in intellectual, cultural and book history, and dictionaries as material objects, as well as their visual design. It also explores the role of dictionaries in a select group of special fields where words especially matter (for instance, law), the business contexts in which dictionaries are made, and finally the future of dictionaries. There is no fuller or more compelling overview of dictionaries available today.
| Author | : Elizabeth Webby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2000-08-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780521658430 |
An indispensable reference for the study of Australian literature.
| Author | : Thomas Burns McArthur |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 1054 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0192806378 |
From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.
