Author: Abel BOYERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Royal Dictionary. In Two Parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French Taken Out of the Dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the Great Dictionary of the French Academy, and the Remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. The English Collected Chiefly Out of the Best Dictionaries, and the Works of the Greatest Masters of the English Tongue ... For the Use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester
Author: Abel BOYERThe Royal Dictionary. In Two Parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French Taken Out of the Dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the Great Dictionary of the French Academy, and the Remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. The English Collected Chiefly Out of the Best Dictionaries, and the Works of the Greatest Masters of the English Tongue ... For the Use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester
Author: Abel BOYERThe Royal Dictionary
Author: Abel BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Royal Dictionary
Author: Abel BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Royal Dictionary
Author: Abel BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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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).
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Author: Anne C. McDermottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135187022X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.
Academy Dictionaries 1600–1800
Author: John ConsidinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139993429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination.
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.”
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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