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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A Pocket Dictionary, or Complete English expositor ... To which is prefix'd an introduction, containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar: and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis, etc
Author: A Pocket Dictionary; Or Complete English Expositor: Shewing Readily the Part of Speech to which Each Word Belongs; ... To which is Prefix'd an Introduction Containing an History of the English Language, with a Compendious Grammar: and a Recommendation of the Manuscript Copy, in a Letter from Dr. Bevis to the Publisher
Author: The Theory of English Lexicography 15301791
Author: Tetsuro HayashiPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027281319
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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).
A pocket dictionary; or, Complete English expositor ... To which is prefixed, an introduction, containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar: and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the publisher ... The fourth edition
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement
Author: Nicholas BrownleesPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527542556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.
Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in 17th and 18th Century England
Author: Linda C MitchellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351807862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001: Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were contested. Author Linda C. Mitchell situates early modern linguistic discussions, long thought to be of little interest, in their larger cultural and social setting to show the startling degree to which grammar affected, and was affected by, such factors as class and gender. In her examination of the controversies that surrounded the teaching and study of grammar in this period, Mitchell looks especially at changing definitions and standardization of "grammar", how and to whom it was taught, and how grammar marked the social position of marginal groups. Her comprehensive study of the contexts in which grammar was intended or thought to function is based on her analysis of the ancillary materials - prefaces, introductions, forewords, statements of intent, organization of materials, surrounding materials, and manifestos of pedagogy, philosophy, and social or political goals - of more than 300 grammar texts of the time. The book is intended as a landmark study of an important movement in the foundation of the modern world.
The Teaching of English
Author: Ian MichaelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241960
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Not only academic educationalists interested in the history of the curriculum, but teachers - from primary schools to University, will find this book of compelling interest.
A Historical Study of the Grammatical Nomenclature Pertaining to the English Verb
Author: Ira King HendricksPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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