The English Dictionary From Cawdrey To Johnson 16041755
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| 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.
| Author | : Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 554 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0300106726 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
| Author | : Howard Jackson |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134574460 |
This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries. Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and parliament, and referred to by crossword addicts and Scrabble players alike. Lexicography provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential references. Howard Jackson analyzes a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource. Beginning with an introduction to the terms used in lexicology to describe words and vocabulary, and offering summaries and suggestions for further reading, Lexicography: An Introduction is highly student-friendly. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in the development and use of dictionaries.
| Author | : Marialuisa Bignami |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2011-07-12 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1443832685 |
The relation between narration and history from the perspective of the twentieth century – the century of criticisms – suggests a new outlook fit for the new millennium. We can no longer look at history and historiography naively, but must be aware of the rhetorical strategies that are at work in the writing. A research group based in Milan has been working on this topic for a few years, discussing authors and texts from different genres and epochs. The essays presented here deal with texts chosen because of their intrinsic relevance to the history of English-speaking cultures and recent critical perspectives – largely, but not exclusively, indebted to Hayden White. Thus the volume considers instances of narrativity and historical discourse in authors as diverse as S. Johnson, E. Chambers, C. Hill, J. Raban, V. Woolf, N. Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, A. Ghosh.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2021-11-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004489347 |
From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words. - Paivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns. - Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and polysemy in Old English."
| Author | : John Considine |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 655 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351870254 |
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.
| Author | : Heming Yong |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000429482 |
A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their earliest roots to the end of the 20th century by adopting both sociolinguistic and lexicographical perspectives. It attempts to break out of the limits of the dictionary-ontology paradigm and set British English dictionary-making and research against a broader background of socio-cultural observations, thus relating the development of English lexicography to changes in English, accomplishments in English linguistics, social and cultural progress, and advances in science and technology. It unfolds a vivid, coherent and complete picture of how English dictionary-making develops from its archetype to the prescriptive, the historical, the descriptive and finally to the cognitive model, how it interrelates to the course of the development of a nation's culture and the historical growth of its lexicographical culture, as well as how English lexicography spreads from British English to other major regional varieties through inheritance, innovation and self-perfection. This volume will be of interest to students and academics of English lexicography, English linguistics and world English lexicography.
| Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2018-01-25 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1108421636 |
This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.
| Author | : Werner Hüllen |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2006-02-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 019151618X |
Between the beginnings of European lexicography and 1700, many glossaries and dictionaries were arranged not according to the alphabet, but in a topical order which followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history at that time. Together with related text genres like treatises on terminology, didactic dialogues, and thesauri, they constitute the topical (or onomasiological) tradition which is an important lexicographical tradition in its own right. This book discusses the tradition's principles and origins, and by way of illustration draws upon early glossaries, treatises for the learning of foreign languages, and didactic dialogues. Later comprehensive works are presented as detailed in-depth studies. Professor Hüllen demonstrates that the English tradition is embedded in a complex Continental tradition whose important representatives, such as Adrianus Junius and Comenius, had a great influence on the English scene.
| Author | : Kusujiro Miyoshi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2008-12-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3484970936 |
This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.
