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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Pocket Dictionary; Or Complete English Expositor: Shewing Readily the Part of Speech to which Each Word Belongs; ... To which is Prefix'd an Introduction Containing an History of the English Language, with a Compendious Grammar: and a Recommendation of the Manuscript Copy, in a Letter from Dr. Bevis to the Publisher
Author: A Pocket Dictionary Or Complete English Expositor
Author: A Pocket Dictionary, or Complete English expositor ... To which is prefix'd an introduction, containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar: and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis, etc
Author: A pocket dictionary; or, Complete English expositor ... To which is prefixed, an introduction, containing an history of the English language, with a compendious grammar: and a recommendation of the manuscript copy, in a letter from Dr. Bevis to the publisher ... The fourth edition
Author: 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.
The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement
Author: Nicholas BrownleesPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527542556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755
Author: DeWitt Talmage StarnesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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.
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).
Grammars of Approach
Author: Cynthia WallPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646783X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son
Author: Oliver GoldsmithPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description