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Fiction - Written by Shirley ElFishawy (9 years old author)
Author : Shirley ElFishawy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0557005477
Fiction - Written by Shirley ElFishawy (9 years old author)
Author : Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521653275
This study, first published in 2000, examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1594 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
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Author : University of Michigan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Jo White Linn
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Phillip Hanes/Johann Philip Hoehns (b. 1692) was born in Zweibrucken, Bavaria, Germany. In 1738, he immigrated (with other Palatines) via Rotterdam to Philadelphia. Some descendants remained in Pennsylvania and others went to North Carolina. The family became prominent in the tobacco industry of Winston-Salem.
Author : Charlotte Adelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0195366948
The second edition of Prairie Directory of North America is a comprehensive guide to locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas.
Author : Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of Indiana
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 1923
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1976
Category : United States
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Author : Rebecca Shapiro
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 38,43 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 : Howard Giskin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791450482
Uses the concept of family, both literally and metaphorically to provide an introduction to Chinese culture.