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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Writer
Author: The American Mercury
Author: National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Home, School, and Community
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Journal of motives in education and public welfare.
The Golden Book Magazine
Author: The Winston Simplified Dictionary for Home, School and Office
Author: The Forum
Author: Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
Author: Sarah OgilviePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108568459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.
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