PDF/Textbook 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 All Those Terms Which Relate To The Arts And Sciences To Which Are Added The Significations Of Proper Names Mythology And Poetical Fictions Historical Relations Geographical Descriptions Full Download

The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791

Author: Tetsuro Hayashi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027209596
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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).