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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048442461
Author : Joseph Emerson Worcester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : English language
ISBN : PRNC:32101007114463
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79196135
Author : Herbert C. Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521558697
The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
Author : G. & C. Merriam (Firm),Charles Merriam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1152099
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210179
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.
Author : Edward Sherman Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B430043
Author : Stewart Archer Steger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032105317
Author : John Walker,P. Austin Nuttall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English language
ISBN : NLS:V000695248
Author : David Micklethwait
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786421576
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:096824345
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Education
ISBN : OSU:32435057134876
Author : William Torrey Harris,Frederic Sturges Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : English language
ISBN : UCR:31210005953201
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006525922
Author : Henry Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000009715769