Author: Thomas DychePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
A New General English Dictionary ; Peculiarly Calculated for the Use and Improvement of Such as are Unacquainted with the Learned Languages. Where in the Difficult Words, and Technical Terms Made Use of in Anatomy, Architecture, Etc. to which is Prefixed a Compendious English Grammar,... Together with a Supplement of the Proper Names of the Most Noted,... as Also of the Most Celebrated Emperors, Kings, Etc. Originally Begun by the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche and Now Finished by William Pardon. The Eleventh Edition, with the Addition of the Several Market Towns in England and Wales,...
Author: Thomas DycheA new general English dictionary: to which is prefixed, a compendious English grammar: together with a supplement of the proper names of the most noted kingdoms, provinces, cities, etc. of the world. Begun by Mr T. D., and now finish'd by W. Pardon. Third edition
Author: Thomas DYCHEA New General English Dictionary ... now finish'd by William Pardon ... The fourth edition, etc
Author: Thomas DYCHEA new general English dictionary ... Originally begun by ... Thomas Dyche ... And now finished by William Pardon ... The twelfth edition, with the addition of the ... market towns in England and Wales, etc
Author: Thomas DYCHEA new general English dictionary ... Originally begun by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche ... And now finish'd by William Pardon, Gent. The fourth edition, etc
Author: Thomas DYCHEThe Whole Book of Psalms ... collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins,&c. The Nineteenth Edition ... Corrected and Amended. To which is added, A New Introduction to Psalmody, etc
Author: John PlayfordA discourse on the use of the pen. Containing observations on writing in general, etc
Author: William LeekeyA Description of Three Hundred Animals; viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, and insects. With a particular account of the whale-fishery. Extracted out of the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities ... Illustrated with copper plates, etc. By Thomas Boreman
Author: Thomas BoremanAdventuring in Dictionaries
Author: John ConsidinePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144382626X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day. The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French–English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry Cockeram; Antonella Amatuzzi discusses Pierre Borel’s use of his predecessors; and Fredric Dolezal investigates multi-word units in the dictionary of John Wilkins and William Lloyd. Linda Mitchell’s account of dictionaries as behaviour guides in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries leads on to Giovanni Iamartino’s presentation of words associated with women in the dictionary of Samuel Johnson, and Thora Van Male’s of the ornaments in the Encyclopédie. Nineteenth-century and subsequent topics are treated by Anatoly Liberman on the growth of the English etymological dictionary; Julie Coleman on dictionaries of rhyming slang; Laura Pinnavaia on Richardson’s New Dictionary and the changing vocabulary of English; Peter Gilliver on early editorial decisions and reconsiderations in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary; Anne Dykstra on the use of Latin as the metalanguage in Joost Halbertsma’s Lexicon Frisicum; Laura Santone on the “Dictionnaire critique” serialized in Georges Bataille’s Surrealist review Documents; Sylvia Brown on the stories of missionary lexicography behind the Eskimo–English Dictionary of 1925; and Michael Adams on the legacies of the Early Modern English Dictionary project. The diverse critical perspectives of the leading lexicographers and historians of lexicography who contribute to this volume are united by a shared interest in the close reading of dictionaries, and a shared concern with the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities, which cannot be understood without attention to the lives of the people who undertook them.
Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary
Author: Dennis E. BaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book contains 25 essays about English words, and how they are defined, valued, and discussed. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "Language Lore," examines some of the myths and misconceptions that affect attitudes toward language--and towards English in particular. The second section, "Language Usage," examines some specific questions of meaning and usage. Section 3, "Language Trends," examines some controversial trends in English vocabulary, and some developments too new to have received comment before. The fourth section, "Language Politics," treats several aspects of linguistic politics, from special attempts to deal with the ethnic, religious, or sex-specific elements of vocabulary to the broader issues of language both as a reflection of the public consciousness and the U.S. Constitution and as a refuge for the most private forms of expression. (MS)