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Book Synopsis Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning by : Robert DeMaria
Download or read book Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning written by Robert DeMaria and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining the World by : Henry Hitchings
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Book Synopsis Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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).
Book Synopsis Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary by : John T. Lynch
Download or read book Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary written by John T. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries by : Sarah Ogilvie
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining the World by : Henry Hitchings
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604) by : Robert Cawdry
Download or read book A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604) written by Robert Cawdry and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson's Insults by : Jack Lynch
Download or read book Samuel Johnson's Insults written by Jack Lynch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll--Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnson's Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographer's mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate. Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many of these zingers have long lain dormant. Some have even come close to extinction. Now they're back in all their prickly glory, ready to be relished once more.
Book Synopsis Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who labored under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time".
Book Synopsis Johnson's Dictionary by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book Johnson's Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words by : Lynda Mugglestone
Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own wider thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson's lexicographical practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put. Dictionary-making, for Johnson, came to be seen as a long and difficult voyage round the world of the English language. While such images play their own role in lexicographical tradition, Johnson would, as this volume explores, also make them very much his own in a range of distinctive, and illuminating, ways. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the processes by which a dictionary might be made and the kind of destination it might seek, as well as the state of language that might be reached by such endeavours. For Johnson, where the dictionary-maker might go, and what should be accomplished along the way, can often seem to raise pertinent and perhaps troubling questions. Lynda Mugglestone's generous, wide-ranging account casts new light on Johnson's life in language and provides an engaging reassessment of his impact on English culture, the making of dictionaries, and their role in a nation's identity.
Download or read book Preface written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
