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"We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages-the front matter-and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English ?works? and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important texts in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas to readers, their ?end users.? Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries compiled during this time and published by national academies, the goal of English dictionaries was usually not to ?purify? the language, though some writers did attempt to regularize it. Instead, English lexicographers aimed to teach practical ways for their users to learn English, improve their language skills, even transcend their social class. The anthology strives to be comprehensive in its coverage of the first phase of this tradition from the early seventeenth century-from Robert Cawdrey{u2019}s (1604) A Table Alphabeticall, to Samuel Johnson{u2019}s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), and finally, to Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). The book puts English dictiona

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Author

Lynch, Jack;Shapiro, Rebecca

Publisher

Bucknell University Press ; Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611488098

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Humanities