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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

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Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

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Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words

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Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words

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Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own wider thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson's lexicographical practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put. Dictionary-making, for Johnson, came to be seen as a long and difficult voyage round the world of the English language. While such images play their own role in lexicographical tradition, Johnson would, as this volume explores, also make them very much his own in a range of distinctive, and illuminating, ways. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the processes by which a dictionary might be made and the kind of destination it might seek, as well as the state of language that might be reached by such endeavours. For Johnson, where the dictionary-maker might go, and what should be accomplished along the way, can often seem to raise pertinent and perhaps troubling questions. Lynda Mugglestone's generous, wide-ranging account casts new light on Johnson's life in language and provides an engaging reassessment of his impact on English culture, the making of dictionaries, and their role in a nation's identity.

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0191669504

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Talking Proper

The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

By: Lynda Mugglestone

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Talking Proper

The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol

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Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and charts its downfall during the era of New Labor. This is a witty, readable account of a fascinating subject, liberally spiced with quotations from English speech and writing over the past 250 years.

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0199250618

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Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words

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Writing a War of Words

Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

By: Lynda Mugglestone

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Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

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Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period, recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer', challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.

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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

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Lost for Words

The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone

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The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone

Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.

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Lost for Words

The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone

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The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Lynda Mugglestone,Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone

Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.

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Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

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Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

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Writing a War of Words

Writing a War of Words

Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction

Lost for Words

Lost for Words

Lost for Words

Lost for Words

Writing a War of Words

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