Making Dictionaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Dictionaries write by William Frawley. This book was released on 2002-10-03. Making Dictionaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays about the theory and practice of Native American lexicography, and more specifically the making of dictionaries, by some of the top scholars working in Native American language studies.
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary write by Peter Gilliver. This book was released on 2016-09-22. The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
Lexicography: Dictionaries, compilers, critics, and users
Lexicography: Dictionaries, compilers, critics, and users - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lexicography: Dictionaries, compilers, critics, and users write by R. R. K. Hartmann. This book was released on 2003. Lexicography: Dictionaries, compilers, critics, and users available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Word by Word
Word by Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Word by Word write by Kory Stamper. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Word by Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
The Way of the Linguist
The Way of the Linguist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way of the Linguist write by Steve Kaufmann. This book was released on 2005-11. The Way of the Linguist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.
