Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition
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Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
ISBN
9783110805949
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY
  3. 1.1. Early word lists
  4. 1.2. The first English dictionaries: the ‘hard words’ tradition
  5. 1.3. The comprehensive English dictionary
  6. 1.4. Inductive method
  7. 1.5. The historical principle
  8. 2. THE AUTHORITARIAN TRADITION IN LANGUAGE: ENGLAND
  9. 2.1. Toward an academy of the English language
  10. 2.2. The need for an English dictionary
  11. 2.3. The dictionary as authority: Samuel Johnson
  12. 2.4. The reception of Johnson’s Dictionary
  13. 3. THE AUTHORITARIAN TRADITION IN LANGUAGE: AMERICA
  14. 3.1. Proposals for an American academy
  15. 3.2. Authoritarian attitudes and Anglophilia
  16. 3.3. Noah Webster’s linguistic patriotism
  17. 3.4. Spelling reform
  18. 3.5. Webster’s influence on American spelling
  19. 3.6. Webster’s American Dictionary
  20. 3.7. The ‘war of the dictionaries’
  21. 3.8. Linguistic conservatism: renewed efforts for an American academy
  22. 4. THE SECOND DICTIONARY WAR: WEBSTER’S THIRD NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY
  23. 4.1. The new authoritarianism
  24. 4.2. Three reviews
  25. 4.3. Rebuttal
  26. 5. LEXICOGRAPHY AND ENGLISH USAGE
  27. 5.1. Usage information in the early dictionaries
  28. 5.2. The authority of the dictionary
  29. 5.3. Usage orientation in modern dictionaries
  30. 5.4. The situational dimension
  31. 5.5. The situational and modal dimensions confused: the colloquial label
  32. 5.6. The usage note
  33. 5.7. The verbal illustration
  34. 5.8. The synonymy
  35. 5.9. Conclusions
  36. Bibliography