Boyer's French Dictionary
Author : Abel Boyer
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Abel Boyer
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Abel Boyer
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Page : 798 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English language
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Author : John Dunton
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 1818
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 1873
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Rebecca Shapiro
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1611488109
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.”
Author : John Dunton
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1818
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1839
Category : American periodicals
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Author : John Considine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351870254
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.