Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers: Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century

Author:   Anne C. McDermott ,  Professor Ian Lancashire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780754656944


Pages:   518
Publication Date:   18 December 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Anne C. McDermott ,  Professor Ian Lancashire
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754656944


ISBN 10:   0754656942
Pages:   518
Publication Date:   18 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction; Part I Background: 18th-century dictionaries and the Enlightenment, Carey McIntosh. Part II Overview: Pronouncing systems in 18th-century dictionaries, Esther K. Sheldon; Vulgar tongues: canting dictionaries and the language of the people in 18th-century Britain, Janet Sorensen. Part III Individual Monolingual Dictionaries: John Kersey, A New English Dictionary (1702): The authorship of A New English Dictionary (1702), Christian Heddesheimer; John Kersey and the ordinary words of English, N.E. Osselton. ’Edward Cocker’, Cocker’s English Dictionary (1704) (rev.John Hawkins, second edition 1715): Edward Cocker and Cocker's English Dictionary, Gertrude E. Noyes. Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721; volume II 1727); Dictionarium Britannicum (1730; second edition 1736): The drudgery of defining: Johnson’s debt to Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum, David McCracken. Benjamin Martin, Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749): Benjamin Martin the linguist, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755): Johnson and the Renaissance dictionary, Paul J. Korshin; The compilation methods of Johnson's Dictionary, Anne McDermott; 17th-century jurisprudence and 18th-century lexicography: sources for Johnson’s notion of authority, John Stone; Johnson's Dictionary and legal dictionaries, J.T. Scanlan; Johnson's Dictionary and the politics of 'standard English', Nicholas Hudson. Joseph Nicol Scott and Nathan Bailey, A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755): Notes on serialization and competitive publishing: Johnson's and Bailey's Dictionaries, 1755, Philip B. Gove. John Entick, The New Spelling Dictionary (1765); Ann Fisher, An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1773): John Entick's and Ann Fisher's Dictionaries: an 18th-century case of (cons)piracy, Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez and Maria Esther Rodríguez-

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'Anne C. McDermott does a masterful job of guiding readers through the complicated history and development of 18th-century lexicography' 18th Century Intelligencer


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Anne C. McDermott is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK. Carey McIntosh, Esther K. Sheldon; Janet Sorensen, Christian Heddesheimer; N.E. Osselton, Gertrude E. Noyes, David McCracken, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Paul J. Korshin; Anne McDermott; John Stone; J.T. Scanlan; Nicholas Hudson, Philip B. Gove, Alicia Rodriguez-Alvarez, Maria Esther Rodriguez-, Lael Ely Bradshaw, O.M. Brack Jr, Thomas Kaminski, Gary L. McDowell;, Bonnie Ferrero, B.J. Scott Norwood, David P.H. Watson, Monique C. Cormier, Heberto Fernandez, Bert Emsley, W. Arthur Boggs, Joan Beal, Julie Coleman.

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