Author: Edward PhillipsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The New World of English Words: Or, a General Dictionary: Containing the Interpretations of Such Hard Words as are Derived from Other Languages ... Together with ... Terms that Relate to the Arts and Sciences ... To which are Added the Significations of Proper Names, Etc
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Author: Edward PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: Containing the Interpretations of Such Hard Words as are Derived from Other Languages
Author: Edward PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Joseph Emerson WorcesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 2060
Book Description
Grammar Wars
Author: Linda MitchellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351807870
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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.
A dictionary of the english language
Author: Joseph E. WorcesterPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1862
Book Description
Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language
Author: John LongmiurAshgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Author: John ConsidinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351870254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
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.
When Information Came of Age
Author: Daniel R. HeadrickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195135970
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"The book provides a concise and readable survey of the many conceptual developments between 1700 and 1850 and draws connections to leading technologies of today. It documents three breakthroughs in information systems that date to the period: the classification and nomenclature of Linneaus, the chemical system devised by Lavoisier, and the metric system. It shows how eighteenth-century political arithmeticians and demographers pioneered statistics and graphs as a means for presenting data succinctly and visually. It describes the transformation of cartography from art to science as it incorporated new methods for determining longitude at sea and new data on the measure of the arc of the meridian on land. Finally, it looks at the early steps in codifying and transmitting information, including the development of dictionaries, the invention of semaphore telegraphs and naval flag signaling, and the conceptual changes in the use and purpose of postal services.".
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