Author: Jonathon Green Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers ISBN: 9780550105639 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
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A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.
Author: Langenscheidt Staff Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 9780887295218 Category : Languages : en Pages : 640
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Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
Author: Lynda Mugglestone Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199573794 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 161
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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.
Author: Lindsay Rose Russell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316953548 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 268
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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: Cora Carroll Scanlon, A.M. Publisher: TAN Books ISBN: 1505106680 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 411
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Prepares students to read the Roman Missal and Breviary. 195 pp. of grammar and a 130-page Latin-English glossary, containing all the words in the Roman Missal and the Roman Breviary. Lessons and readings from these two books, plus from the Latin Vulgate Bible. Fantastic tool for the study of Church Latin.
Author: Howard Jackson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134574452 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 210
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This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries. Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and parliament, and referred to by crossword addicts and Scrabble players alike. Lexicography provides a detailed overview of the history, types and content of these essential references. Howard Jackson analyzes a wide range of dictionaries, from those for native speakers to thematic dictionaries and those on CD-ROM, to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource. Beginning with an introduction to the terms used in lexicology to describe words and vocabulary, and offering summaries and suggestions for further reading, Lexicography: An Introduction is highly student-friendly. It is ideal for anyone with an interest in the development and use of dictionaries.
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