Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234

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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486168131
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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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.

Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429928948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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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.

Author: DeWitt Talmage Starnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027245444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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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.

Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312426200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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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.

Author: Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108568459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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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.

Author: Johnson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978

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Author: John T. Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521848442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.