The English Dictionary Before Cawdrey
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Author |
: DeWitt Talmage Starnes |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027245441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027245444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755 by : DeWitt Talmage Starnes
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.
Author |
: Gabriele Stein |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2014-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111664873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111664872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Dictionary before Cawdrey by : Gabriele Stein
Lexiographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.
Author |
: Robert Cawdry |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105004656786 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604) by : Robert Cawdry
Author |
: Sarah Ogilvie |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2020-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108568456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108568459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries by : Sarah Ogilvie
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 |
: Robert Cawdrey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1851243852 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781851243853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First English Dictionary, 1604 by : Robert Cawdrey
Here is a real treat for lovers of English - the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604.Written for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen or any other unskilfull persons, this was not a book for scholars but was aimed squarely at the non-fiction best-seller list of its day. It is a treasure-house of meaning, bristling with arresting and eminently quotable definitions. For example geometrie is the 'art of measuring the earth', and hecticke is 'inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie', while barbarian is 'a rude person', and a concubine is a 'harlot, or light huswife'.Cawdrey did set out to create an exhaustive catalogue of the language but rather a guide which would unlock the mystery of hard usual English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French for educated gentlefolk encountering new words which English was then absorbing at a phenomenal rate.Every entry in this list of 2,543 words sheds interesting light on early modern life and the development of the language. This edition, prepared from the sole surviving copy of the first edition, now in the Bodleian Library, also includes an extensive introduction setting the dictionary in its historical, social and literary context, and exploring the unusual and interesting career of its little-known author.Published eight years ahead of the first of the first Italian dictionary and 35 years ahead of the first French dictionary, this work shows Cawdrey as a man ahead of his time and foreshadows the phenomenal growth of English and its eventual triumph as the new global lingua franca.
Author |
: Robert Cawdrey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1851243887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781851243884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First English Dictionary 1604 by : Robert Cawdrey
English is one of the most complicated languages to learn, and its constantly evolving vocabulary certainly doesn't help matters. For centuries, men and women have striven to chronicle and categorize the expressions of the English language, and Samuel Johnson is usually thought to be their original predecessor. But that lineage is wrong: Robert Cawdrey published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604, 149 years before Johnson's tome, and it is now republished here for the first time in over 350 years. This edition, prepared from the sole surviving copy of the first printing, documents Cawdrey's fascinating selection of 2,543 words and their first-ever definitions. Cawdrey subtitled his dictionary "for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen, and other unskilled folk," for his aim was not to create a comprehensive catalog, but rather an in-depth guide for the lesser educated who might not know the "hard usual English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French." Each entry reveals an intriguing facet of early modern life and the cultural mores of the time. There are familiar terms--"geometrie" was defined as "the art of measuring the earth," and a "concubine" was described as a "harlot, or light huswife"--and amusingly idiomatic definitions: "prodigall" is "too riotous in spending," while "hecticke" is "inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie." John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, contributes an insightful introduction that recounts the eventful life of Robert Cawdrey and his mission to become the first English lexicographer. A treasure-trove of linguistic oddity and history for the bibliophile, budding lexicographer, or obsessive Scrabble player, The First English Dictionary, 1604 reveals the roots of our language in all its eccentric glory.
Author |
: Samuel Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1234 |
Release |
: 1819 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:23928452 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Samuel Johnson
Author |
: Simon Winchester |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192805762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192805768 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Meaning of Everything by : Simon Winchester
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Author |
: Lindsay Rose Russell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2018-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316953549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316953548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Dictionary-Making by : Lindsay Rose Russell
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.
Author |
: Tetsuro Hayashi |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 1978-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027209597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027209596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791 by : Tetsuro Hayashi
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known "English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755," by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process, Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory, starting with John Palsgrave's "Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse" (1530), to John Walker's "A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language" (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson's influential "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).