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Author : Allen Reddick
Release : 1996-01-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 by : Allen Reddick
Download or read book The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773 written by Allen Reddick. This book was released on 1996-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the acclaimed study of Johnson's Dictionary incorporates new commentary and scholarship.
Author : John T. Lynch
Release : 2005-04-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 442/5 ( reviews)
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. This book was released on 2005-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
Author : John Mullan
Release : 2006
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Book Synopsis Johnson's Dictionary by : John Mullan
Download or read book Johnson's Dictionary written by John Mullan. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Gilliver
Release : 2016
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by : Peter Gilliver
Download or read book The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary written by Peter Gilliver. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources--including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony--to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people--many of them remarkable individuals--who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
Author : Peter Martin
Release : 2020-09-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dictionary Wars by : Peter Martin
Download or read book The Dictionary Wars written by Peter Martin. This book was released on 2020-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
