Author: Kusujiro Miyoshi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3484970936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.
Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples
Author: Kusujiro Miyoshi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3484970936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3484970936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book analyses Noah Webster's and Samuel Johnson's use of verbal examples in their dictionaries as a means of giving guidance on word usage. The author's major interest lies in elucidating how uniquely Webster, who was originally a grammarian, made use of verbal examples. In order to achieve this purpose, the author provides chapters based on types of entry words in their functional contexts. Johnson's selection of sources of citations and the frequency of his quoting citations tended to vary strongly according to the type of entry word; he also supplied invented examples rather than citations when he thought it especially necessary to clarify the use of a word. By contrast, with the exception of biblical ones, almost all of Webster's citations were taken from Johnson's »Dictionary«. However, Webster significantly made full use of such citations to express his view on word usage, which differs essentially from Johnson's. Besides, Webster had a strong tendency to quote phrases and sentences from the Bible for the same purpose.
Lexicography in the Borderland between Knowledge and Non-Knowledge
Author: Sven Tarp
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 348497043X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 348497043X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners’ dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.
Dictionaries
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
English and American Studies in German
Author: Paul Georg Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783484431065
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783484431065
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Popular American Dictionary, on the Basis of Webster, Worcester, Johnson, and the Most Eminent English and American Authorities, [containing Over 32,000 Words ...]
Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Philological Quarterly
Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia
Author: Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Harbrace Guide to Dictionaries
Author: Kenneth George Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description