Proposal for the publication of a new English dictionary
Author : Philological society
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Philological society
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Peter Gilliver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0191009687
This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
Author : Philological Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 1858
Category : English language
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Author : Philological Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1859
Category : English language
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Author : Patricia Anderson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816539596
In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.
Author : American Philosophical Society
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Tony Crowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135081328
First published in 1991. Debates about the state and status of the English language are rarely debates about language alone. Closely linked to the question, what is proper English? is another, more significant social question: who are the proper English? The texts in this book have been selected to illustrate the process by which particular forms of English usage are erected and validated as correct and standard. At the same time, the texts demonstrate how a certain group of people, and certain sets of cultural practices are privileged as correct, standard and central. Covering a period of three hundred years, these writers, who include Locke, Swift, Webster, James, Newbolt and Marenbon, wrestle with questions of language change and decay, correct and incorrect usage, what to prescribe and proscribe. Reread in the light of recent debates about cultural identity - how is it constructed and maintained? what are its effects? - these texts clearly demonstrate the formative roles of race, class and gender in the construction of proper ‘Englishness' . Tony Crowley's introductory material breaks new ground in rescuing these texts from the academic backwater of the 'history of the language' and in reasserting the central role of language in history.
Author : Arthur Garfield Kennedy
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 1927
Category : English philology
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Author : Richard M. Hogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521264778
The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.