The Cambridge Companion To English Dictionaries
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Author | : Sarah Ogilvie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108568459 |
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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 | : Adrian Poole |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828118 |
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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author | : Robert Audi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1312 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107643796 |
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This is the leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers to appear in English in more than half a century. Written by a team of more than 550 experts and now widely translated, it contains approximately 5,000 entries ranging from short definitions to longer articles. It is designed to facilitate the understanding of philosophy at all levels and in all fields. Key features of this third edition: • 500 new entries covering Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and covering individual countries such as China, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain • Increased coverage of such growing fields as ethics and philosophy of mind • More than 100 new intellectual portraits of leading contemporary thinkers • Wider coverage of Continental philosophy • Dozens of new technical concepts in cognitive science and other areas • Enhanced cross-referencing to add context and increase understanding • Expansions in both text and index to facilitate research and browsing
Author | : Sarah Ogilvie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107021839 |
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Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.
Author | : Shaun Richards |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-01-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521008730 |
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Author | : Carol Sanders |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2004-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139826522 |
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Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern linguistics and structuralism. The first to establish the structural study of language, he identified the difference between the system of language ('Langue') and the idiosyncratic speech of individuals ('Parole'), and was first to distinguish between the 'synchronic' study of language (language at a given time), and the 'diachronic' (language as it changes through time). This Companion brings together a team of leading scholars to offer a fresh new account of Saussure's work. As well as looking at his pioneering and renowned Course in General Linguistics of 1916, they consider his lesser-known early work, his more recently-discovered manuscripts, and his influence on a range of other disciplines, such as cultural studies, philosophy, literature and semiotics. With contributions by specialists in each field, this comprehensive and accessible guide creates a unique picture of the lasting importance of Saussure's thought.
Author | : Cambridge University Press |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 932 |
Release | : 2007-01-25 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521682022 |
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tudents whether they are learning English for work, pleasure or exams.
Author | : Edward Finegan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108836241 |
Download The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
There is no such thing as 'the dictionary'. Rather, there are innumerable kinds of dictionaries that respond to their authors' aspirations and their users' needs. In each case, the negotiation among a dictionary's material, its authors, and its readers tells a rich cultural story. Bringing together cutting-edge research from an international team of experts, this interdisciplinary Handbook provides an all-encompassing account of dictionaries in context. Organized into five thematic parts, its chapters cover a multitude of topics such as types of dictionaries, the place of dictionaries in intellectual, cultural and book history, and dictionaries as material objects, as well as their visual design. It also explores the role of dictionaries in a select group of special fields where words especially matter (for instance, law), the business contexts in which dictionaries are made, and finally the future of dictionaries. There is no fuller or more compelling overview of dictionaries available today.
Author | : Peter Humfrey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2008-06-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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This Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. Among the topics and themes to be discussed are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture. Further essays reassess the artist's approaches to landscape and color, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.
Author | : Thomas Burns McArthur |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0192806378 |
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From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.