Author: John NEWBERY (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Newbery's new spelling dictionary of the English language ... New edition
Author: John NEWBERY (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Newbery's Spelling Dictionary of the English Language, on a new plan, etc
Author: John NEWBERY (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A bookseller of the last century, being some account of the life of J. Newbery, and of the books he published, with a notice of the later Newberys
Author: Charles WelshA Bookseller of the Last Century
Author: Charles WelshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Fixing Babel
Author: Rebecca ShapiroPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488109
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important texts in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas to readers, their “end users.” Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries compiled during this time and published by national academies, the goal of English dictionaries was usually not to “purify” the language, though some writers did attempt to regularize it. Instead, English lexicographers aimed to teach practical ways for their users to learn English, improve their language skills, even transcend their social class. The anthology strives to be comprehensive in its coverage of the first phase of this tradition from the early seventeenth century—from Robert Cawdrey’s (1604) A Table Alphabeticall, to Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), and finally, to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). The book puts English dictionaries in historical, national, linguistic, literary, cultural contexts, presenting lexicographical trends and the change in the English language over two centuries, and examines how writers attempted to control it by appealing to various pedagogical and legal authorities. Moreover, the development of dictionary and attempts to codify English language and grammar coincided with the arc of the British Empire; the promulgation of “proper” English has been a subject of debate and inquiry for centuries and, in part, dictionaries and the teaching of English historically have been used to present and support ideas about what is correct, regardless of how and where English is actually used. The authors who wrote these texts apply ideas about capitalism, nationalism, sex and social status to favor one language theory over another. I show how dictionaries are not neutral documents: they challenge or promote biases. The book presents and analyzes the history of lexicography, demonstrating how and why dictionaries evolved into the reference books we now often take for granted and we can see that there is no easy answer to the question of “who owns English.”
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
A Spelling-Dictionary of the English Language, on a new plan ... Being a supplement to the Circle of the Sciences, &c. ... The third edition. [Edited by J. Newbery.]
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Author: John NEWBERY (Publisher.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922
Author: Arthur Garfield KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Early Modern Conceptions of Property
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136190856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Early Modern Conceptions of Property draws together distinguished academics from a variety of disciplines, including law, economics, politics, art history, social history and literature, in order to consider fundamental issues of property in the early modern period. Presenting diverse original historical and literary case studies in a sophisticated theoretical framework, it offers a challenge to conventional interpretations.