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Author | : John Considine |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 144382626X |
Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day. The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French–English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry Cockeram; Antonella Amatuzzi discusses Pierre Borel’s use of his predecessors; and Fredric Dolezal investigates multi-word units in the dictionary of John Wilkins and William Lloyd. Linda Mitchell’s account of dictionaries as behaviour guides in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries leads on to Giovanni Iamartino’s presentation of words associated with women in the dictionary of Samuel Johnson, and Thora Van Male’s of the ornaments in the Encyclopédie. Nineteenth-century and subsequent topics are treated by Anatoly Liberman on the growth of the English etymological dictionary; Julie Coleman on dictionaries of rhyming slang; Laura Pinnavaia on Richardson’s New Dictionary and the changing vocabulary of English; Peter Gilliver on early editorial decisions and reconsiderations in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary; Anne Dykstra on the use of Latin as the metalanguage in Joost Halbertsma’s Lexicon Frisicum; Laura Santone on the “Dictionnaire critique” serialized in Georges Bataille’s Surrealist review Documents; Sylvia Brown on the stories of missionary lexicography behind the Eskimo–English Dictionary of 1925; and Michael Adams on the legacies of the Early Modern English Dictionary project. The diverse critical perspectives of the leading lexicographers and historians of lexicography who contribute to this volume are united by a shared interest in the close reading of dictionaries, and a shared concern with the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities, which cannot be understood without attention to the lives of the people who undertook them.
Author | : Eric Partridge |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Erica Reiner |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : 9780871699237 |
Author | : George Takahashi |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2016-07-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1514479451 |
George Takahashis An Adventure in English Language Space: A Key to the Mysteries of Prepositions, goes beyond the basic dos and donts of English grammar into contextual space. He defines dimensional relationships of words to their meanings and proper usage to help native and non-native speakers of English grasp the layers of possibilities beneath the often ambiguous sound-and-sense method of approach to the English language. He finds discrepancies between other authoritative dictionaries and puts as many myths to rest in tangible explanations of how the structure of language in and around prepositions can be straightforward and comprehensible. Takahashis An Adventure in English Language Space is for everyone, from scholars to anyone who is curious about the sense and meaning of English prepositions.
Author | : Mary F. McVicker |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476603073 |
The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive reference work done on the travelers themselves. Some of the women were eccentric, many were very adventurous, some were in search of a different world... British women make up the largest portion of the book's focus--these particular adventurers being backed in many cases by family money, scientific inquiry, and the ready availability of the British seafaring tradition. Entries include the woman's family background, her educational history, and a summary of her world travels, with in many cases evocative extracts from their writings (many are literary gems).
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Author | : John Considine |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443821772 |
Current Projects in Historical Lexicography brings together seven papers by present and recent editors of historical dictionaries and lexical databases. The collection is introduced with an overview of the history of historical lexicography from the ancient world to the present day, with particular emphasis on the major nineteenth-century dictionaries of German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish, and on their successors. In the first paper, Javier Martín Arista describes the present state of, and the prospects for, the Nerthus lexical database of Old English. The next two introduce specialized dictionaries of the language of medieval and early modern texts: Fernando Tejedo-Herrero’s comprehensive dictionary of the language of the great thirteenth-century lawcode Siete Partidas, and Juhani Norri’s Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1530. Marijke Mooijaart’s paper discusses the online integration of the four historical dictionaries which cover Dutch from the earliest times to the twentieth century. The next two papers, Stefan Dollinger on the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles and the Bank of Canadian English, and Maggie Scott on the Concise Scots Dictionary, describe projects to revise twentieth-century historical dictionaries as the language varieties which they register evolve. Finally, Jeremy Bergerson’s paper presents a project for an etymologically rich historical dictionary of Afrikaans. An appendix to the volume comprises two previously unpublished short documents by Katherine Barber and John Considine which bear on the history of the Dictionary of Canadianisms revision project. The contributions to this volume offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological issues such as inclusion criteria and the balance between diachronic and synchronic coverage, and practical issues such as publication media and funding.
Author | : Bampfylde Moore CAREW |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
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Author | : Sam Winston |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1536240443 |
The much-anticipated new picture book from the best-selling, award-winning creators of A Child of Books. Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn’t what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again.
Author | : Nathan Bailey |
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Total Pages | : 964 |
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