Adventuring in Dictionaries
Title | Adventuring in Dictionaries PDF eBook |
Author | John Considine |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 395 |
Release | 2010-10-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 144382626X |
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.
An Adventure of Great Dimension
Title | An Adventure of Great Dimension PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Reiner |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Akkadian language |
ISBN | 9780871699237 |
Adventuring Among Words
Title | Adventuring Among Words PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Partridge |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
An Adventure in English Language Space
Title | An Adventure in English Language Space PDF eBook |
Author | George Takahashi |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 2016-07-19 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1514479451 |
George Takahashis An Adventure in English Language Space: A Key to the Mysteries of Prepositions, goes beyond the basic dos and donts of English grammar into contextual space. He defines dimensional relationships of words to their meanings and proper usage to help native and non-native speakers of English grasp the layers of possibilities beneath the often ambiguous sound-and-sense method of approach to the English language. He finds discrepancies between other authoritative dictionaries and puts as many myths to rest in tangible explanations of how the structure of language in and around prepositions can be straightforward and comprehensible. Takahashis An Adventure in English Language Space is for everyone, from scholars to anyone who is curious about the sense and meaning of English prepositions.
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Title | Pretty Maids All in a Row PDF eBook |
Author | Anthea Fraser |
Publisher | Black Dagger Crime |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780754086581 |
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew ... Containing a Dictionary of the Cant Language ... A New Edition, Corrected & Much Improved. [With Plates.]
Title | The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew ... Containing a Dictionary of the Cant Language ... A New Edition, Corrected & Much Improved. [With Plates.] PDF eBook |
Author | Bampfylde Moore CAREW |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1813 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dictionary of the American West
Title | Dictionary of the American West PDF eBook |
Author | Win Blevins |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0875654835 |
Did you ever need to spell “dogie” (as in, get-along-little), or need to know what a “sakey” is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronounce, and define over 5,000 terms relative to the American West. Want to know what a “breachy” cow is? Turn to page 43 to learn that it’s an adjective used to describe a cow that has a tendency to find her way through fences where she isn’t supposed to be. Describes some teenagers we know… Spend hours perusing the dictionary at random, or read straight through to give you a flavor of the West from its beginnings to contemporary days. Laced with photographs and maps, the Dictionary of the American West will make you sound like an expert on all things Western, even if you don’t know your dingus from a dinner plate. Compiled of words brought into English from Native Americans, emigrants, Mormons, Hispanics, migrant workers, loggers, and fur trappers, the dictionary opens up history and culture in an enchanting way. From “Aarigaa!” to “zopilote,” the Dictionary of the American West is a “valuable book, a treasure for any literate American’s library.” (Tony Hillerman)