A Dictionary Of The English Language An Anthology

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141902868
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology written by Samuel Johnson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal, will contain a selection from the original, offering memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.

Author : Samuel Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
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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: Together With A History of the Language, and an English Grammar written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Shapiro
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611488109
Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Fixing Babel written by Rebecca Shapiro and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
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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:

Author : Samuel Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book Samuel Johnson's Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726356572
Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge of the northern literature is so scanty, that of words undoubtedly Teutonick the original is not always to be found in any ancient language; and I have therefore inserted Dutch or German substitutes, which I consider not as radical but parallel, not as the parents, but sisters of the English. The words which are represented as thus related by descent or cognation, do not always agree in sense; for it is incident to words, as to their authours, to degenerate from their ancestors, and to change their manners when they change their country. It is sufficient, in etymological enquiries, if the senses of kindred words be found such as may easily pass into each other, or such as may both be referred to one general idea. The etymology, so far as it is yet known, was easily found in the volumes where it is particularly and professedly delivered;

Author : María Teresa Babín
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Borinquen; an Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature written by María Teresa Babín and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Allen Lane
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
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Download or read book Johnson's Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by Allen Lane. This book was released on 2005 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontes and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal, will contain a selection from the original, offering memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.