The Cambridge Companion To English Dictionaries

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108568456

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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries by Sarah Ogilvie Pdf

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
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828116

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The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists by Adrian Poole Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1259493618

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Cambridge Essential English Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1773 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 0521588359

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Cambridge International Dictionary of English by Proctor Pdf

The best dictionary available in the market at an affordable price is the Cambridge Low Price E dition Dictionary.The factors which makes it attractive are its price,maximum coverage of words and most importantly it gives an 'use in sentence 'for every word something u cannot find in other dictionaries.I would say this is the best dictionary suited for any one who has a flair for english.

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by Neil Corcoran Pdf

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

Author : Daniel Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521816939

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Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones Pdf

Updated edition with 200 new information panels, colour headwords and unique CD-ROM. With more than 80,000 entries and 220,000 pronunciations, Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary is the ultimate guide to English pronunciation. Thousands of pronunciations not shown in general dictionaries are included, from people and places, to words from science, technology and literature, such as Beckham, Eminem, Google, Prozac. A version with CD-ROM is also available.

Author : Edward Finegan,Michael Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108836240

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary by Edward Finegan,Michael Adams Pdf

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 : Pam Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052162181X

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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters Pdf

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of recent research and data from very large corpora of American and British English - illuminating their many divergences and also points of convergence on which international English can be based. The book comprises more than 4000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet. The discussion notes the major dictionaries, grammars and usage books in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, allowing readers to calibrate their own practices as required. CGEU is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but offers a principled basis for implementing progressive or more conservative decisions on usage.

Author : Pam Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125352002

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The Cambridge Dictionary of English Grammar by Pam Peters Pdf

Author : Colin McIntosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107685494

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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary by Colin McIntosh Pdf

A fully updated edition of the best-selling Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. This paperback edition is ideal for advanced (C1-C2) learners of English and contains up-to-date vocabulary, including words from the areas of technology, media, language, society, and lifestyle, plus important words for academic study. With over 140,000 words, phrases, meanings, and examples, hundreds of pictures and illustrations, clear definitions and a new 'Focus on Writing' section, the dictionary is perfect as a reference tool and as a study companion. Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus and correlated to English Vocabulary Profile, it is also ideal for exam preparation. A version of this dictionary with CD-ROM is available to purchase separately.

Author : Sidney I. Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1087 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521477611

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Cambridge Dictionary of American English by Sidney I. Landau Pdf

The authoritative guide to American English as it's really used today. Based on the Cambridge International Corpus, a database that includes more than 200 million words of spoken and written American English, the paperback edition contains more than 40,000 definitions of words and phrases. Entries are organized by meaning, and words with more than one meaning are clearly marked with a boxed guideword, so there's no guesswork involved in finding the right entry. Definitions are written using a carefully controlled 2,000-word defining vocabulary, so they are clear and easy to understand. The dictionary also includes coverage of important Canadian and British words and meanings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ernst Klett Sprachen
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521712408

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Esol Activities by Anonim Pdf

This edition of the Cambridge Essential English Dictionary contains an additional pull-out section, ideal for those preparing for Skills For Life exams.

Author : Daniel Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521152556

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Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary with CD-ROM by Daniel Jones Pdf

New edition of the classic work by Daniel Jones includes up-to-date entries and new study pages.

Author : Grandreams Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 086227835X

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The Cambridge English Dictionary by Grandreams Limited Pdf

Author : Sarah Ogilvie,Gabriella Safran
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190913199

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The Whole World in a Book by Sarah Ogilvie,Gabriella Safran Pdf

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century. Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster for American, Grimm for German, Littr� for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in spaces whose literary languages already had long philological and lexicographic traditions-Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin-the burgeoning imperialisms and nationalisms of the nineteenth century generated new dictionaries. The Whole World in a Book explores a period in which globalization, industrialization, and social mobility were changing language in unimaginable ways. Newly automated technologies and systems of communication expanded the international reach of dictionaries, while rising literacy rates, book consumption, and advertising led to their unprecedented popularization. Dictionaries in the nineteenth century became more than dictionaries: they were battlefields between prestige languages and lower-status dialects; national icons celebrating the language and literature of the nation-state; and sites of innovative authorship where middle and lower classes, volunteers, women, colonial subjects, the deaf, and missionaries joined the ranks of educated white men in defining how people communicated and understood the world around them. In this volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars investigate these lexicographers asking how the world within which they lived supported their projects? What did language itself mean for them? What goals did they try to accomplish in their dictionaries?