A Dictionary of the English Language
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
Johnson's Dictionary
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0486168131
Book Description
Written virtually single-handedly over a seven-year period by a revered dean of English letters, Johnson’s Dictionary first appeared in 1755. A remarkable monument to the vigor and variety of our language and to the genius of its author, it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years and formed the basis for all subsequent English dictionaries. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions and literary examples to a more manageable length, retaining the verbal pleasure and historical curiosity of the original. It features many entries that can no longer be found in most modern dictionaries, with intriguing definitions and examples of usage in the literature of Johnson’s time.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755
Author : DeWitt Talmage Starnes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027245444
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.
Defining the World
Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312426200
Book Description
Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108568459
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604)
Author : Robert Cawdry
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN :
Book Description
Johnson's Dictionary
Author : David Dabydeen
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Demerara
ISBN : 9781845232184
Book Description
An historical adventure through London and the sugar-cane colony of Demerara, British Guyana. David Dabydeen takes inspiration from the art of Hogarth and its dens of iniquity: we meet slaves, lowly women on the make, lustful overseers and pious Jews. But it is in his master's copy of Johnson's Dictionary that the slave Francis finds the transformative power of words, and his own path to freedom and redemption.
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781511931311
Book Description
"Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language" from Samuel Johnson. English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (1709-1784).
