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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604) The First English Dictionary
Author: A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604)
Author: Robert CawdryPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 16041755
Author: De Witt T. StarnesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277729
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
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.
A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604)
Author: Robert CawdreyPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604)
Author: Robert CawdryPublisher: Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
ISBN: 9780820110073
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The first English dictionary, this lexicographic milestone reflects Elizabethan ideas & tastes.
A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words (1604)
Author: Robert CawdryA Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604) ; the First English Dictionary. A Facsimile Reproduction with an Introduction by Robert A. Peters
Author: Robert CawdryThe Story of Webster's Third
Author: Herbert C. MortonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558693
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual Words (1604)
Author: Robert CawdryPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The First English Dictionary, 1604
Author: Robert CawdreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851243853
Category : Anglais (Langue) - 1500-1700 (Moderne) - Dictionnaires
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here is a real treat for lovers of English - the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604.Written for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen or any other unskilfull persons, this was not a book for scholars but was aimed squarely at the non-fiction best-seller list of its day. It is a treasure-house of meaning, bristling with arresting and eminently quotable definitions. For example geometrie is the 'art of measuring the earth', and hecticke is 'inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie', while barbarian is 'a rude person', and a concubine is a 'harlot, or light huswife'.Cawdrey did set out to create an exhaustive catalogue of the language but rather a guide which would unlock the mystery of hard usual English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French for educated gentlefolk encountering new words which English was then absorbing at a phenomenal rate.Every entry in this list of 2,543 words sheds interesting light on early modern life and the development of the language. This edition, prepared from the sole surviving copy of the first edition, now in the Bodleian Library, also includes an extensive introduction setting the dictionary in its historical, social and literary context, and exploring the unusual and interesting career of its little-known author.Published eight years ahead of the first of the first Italian dictionary and 35 years ahead of the first French dictionary, this work shows Cawdrey as a man ahead of his time and foreshadows the phenomenal growth of English and its eventual triumph as the new global lingua franca.