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9780199679904

Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words

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    9780199679904

  • ISBN10:

    0199679908

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2015-10-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of the History of English and Fellow and Tutor in English at Pembroke College. She is the editor of Lexicography and the OED (OUP 2002),The Oxford History of English (OUP 2006, 2nd edn 2012) and, with Freya Johnston, of Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum (OUP 2012). Her books include Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (OUP 1995, 2nd edn 2003), Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale 2004) and Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2011).

Table of Contents


Preface
1. Journeys into Words
2. Writing the Dictionary: Departures and destinations
3. 'Excursions into books': Documenting the new world of words
4. The Ordered State: Power, authority, and the written word
5. Meaning, governance, and the colours of words
6. Defending the Citadel, patrolling the borders
7. History and the flux of time
8. The praise of perfection
Appendix: 1755 - 1773
Notes
References
Index

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