Download or read book Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society written by Richard Chenevix Trench and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proposal for the publication of a new English dictionary written by Philological society and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary written by Peter Gilliver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 688 pages. 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.

Download or read book Lexicography and the OED written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest sets out to explore the pioneering endeavours in both lexicography and lexicology which led to the making of the first English dictionary published by Oxford. Deliberately conceived as a new departure in English lexicography, the first OED, as James Murray stressed, was to be founded on an unequivocal return to first principles, both in the nature of its construction and in the evidence amassed for its compilation. It also produced, as this book shows, a host of problems: on the nature of Englishness, correctness, and general standards of language use, as well as in aspects of pronunciation, semantics, and syntax. Often making use of previously unpublished archive material, this collection of twelve essays provides both a range of perspectives from which the dictionary can be approached, and also explores the particular problems posed by the attempt to realize the pioneering acts of lexicography integral to the making of the dictionary.

Download or read book Revitalization Lexicography written by Patricia Anderson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries’ reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs. Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.

Download or read book Proposed International Phonetic Conference to Adopt a Universal Alphabet to Serve as Pronouncing Key in Dictionaries written by Boston University. College of Liberal Arts and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curcular -- Reasons for this inquiry -- Endorsements -- Comments -- Four detailed replies -- Objections answered -- International Phonetic Association -- Similar movements: Major Terry's work, Mr. Ruppenthal's work, Mr. Vaile's work -- Financial statement -- Index.

Download or read book On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries written by Richard Chenevix Trench and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922 written by Arthur Garfield Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poetry the Dictionary written by Andrew Blades and published by Poetry and Lup. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the many ways in which dictionaries have stimulated the imaginations of modern and contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, and America, while also considering how poetry has itself been a rich source of material for lexicographers.

Download or read book Proper English written by Tony Crowley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. Debates about the state and status of the English language are rarely debates about language alone. Closely linked to the question, what is proper English? is another, more significant social question: who are the proper English? The texts in this book have been selected to illustrate the process by which particular forms of English usage are erected and validated as correct and standard. At the same time, the texts demonstrate how a certain group of people, and certain sets of cultural practices are privileged as correct, standard and central. Covering a period of three hundred years, these writers, who include Locke, Swift, Webster, James, Newbolt and Marenbon, wrestle with questions of language change and decay, correct and incorrect usage, what to prescribe and proscribe. Reread in the light of recent debates about cultural identity - how is it constructed and maintained? what are its effects? - these texts clearly demonstrate the formative roles of race, class and gender in the construction of proper ‘Englishness' . Tony Crowley's introductory material breaks new ground in rescuing these texts from the academic backwater of the 'history of the language' and in reasserting the central role of language in history.

Download or read book An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Philological Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An alphabetical list of English words occurring in the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries forming a basis of comparison for contributors to the new dictionary of the Philological society written by Philological society and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays and Lectures Chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus written by Horace Hayman Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Essays Analytical Critical and Philological on Subjects Connected with Sanskrit Literature by the Late H H Wilson written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Works written by Horace Hayman Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays and Lectures on the Religions of the Hindus written by Horace Hayman Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: