By Lynda Mugglestone
ISBN-10: 0199679908
ISBN-13: 9780199679904
exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language switch, mortgage phrases, spelling, historical past, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his principles concerning the nature, function, and techniques of lexicography, and exhibits how those replicate his personal and others' considering politics,
culture, and society. The ebook bargains a cautious reassessment of Johnson's prescriptive perform, analyzing intimately his dedication to proof, and the makes use of to which this could be put.
Dictionary-making, for Johnson, got here to be visible as an extended and hard voyage around the international of the English language. whereas such photographs play their very own function in lexicographical culture, Johnson might, as this quantity explores, additionally cause them to greatly his personal in a number of unique, and illuminating, methods. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the approaches wherein a dictionary will be made and the type of vacation spot it may possibly search, in addition to the nation of language that
might be reached through such endeavours. For Johnson, the place the dictionary-maker may cross, and what could be complete alongside the way in which, can frequently appear to bring up pertinent and maybe troubling questions.
Lynda Mugglestone's beneficiant, wide-ranging account casts new mild on Johnson's existence in language and gives a powerful reassessment of his effect on English tradition, the making of dictionaries, and their position in a nation's identification. She ends through contemplating the ability of Johnson's legacy and the measure to which his paintings maintains to lead our attitudes to language and what we variously count on dictionaries to be and do.
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