Small Dictionaries and Curiosity - 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 Small Dictionaries and Curiosity write by John P. Considine. This book was released on 2017. Small Dictionaries and Curiosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of the lower Volga. The book gives an account of about 90 of these dictionaries and wordlists, some of them single-page jottings and some of them full-sized printed books, paying attention to their content and their physical form alike. It explores the kinds of curiosity and imagination by which their makers were moved: the lover of all languages hearing new voices in an inn; the speaker of a dying language recording his linguistic memories; the patriot deploying his lexicographical findings in the service of an emerging nation. It offers an encounter with the diverse voices of the entirety of post-medieval Europe, turning away from the people of the courts and universities whose language was documented in big dictionaries to listen to people who did not speak the languages of power: the people of remote places and dying communities; the illiterate poor, settled or homeless; migrants from the edges of Europe and beyond.
Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries
Sixteenth-Century English 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 Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries write by John Considine. This book was released on 2022-04-08. Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before. The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.
Curious George's Dictionary
Curious George's 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 Curious George's Dictionary write by The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. This book was released on 2008-08-27. Curious George's Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Curious George gets curious about words in this illustrated dictionary designed for children from preschool through kindergarten. In an illustrated introduction to this unique dictionary, Curious George learns how to look up words before embarking on an educational adventure through a vocabulary list chosen specifically for children ages four to six. The dictionary itself presents approximately 600 words, with six words to a page. Each entry is illustrated with a full-color drawing, and more than half of the illustrations include a sample sentence that puts the word in context. At the end of the book, eight full-page features present groups of thematically related words such as colors, shapes, and numbers.
The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
The Cambridge World History of Lexicography - 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 Cambridge World History of Lexicography write by John Considine. This book was released on 2021-07-01. The Cambridge World History of Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world, to the contemporary speech communities of every inhabited continent. Their makers included poets and soldiers, saints and courtiers, a scribe in an ancient Egyptian 'house of life' and a Vietnamese queen. Their physical forms include Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts and the dictionary apps which are supporting endangered Australian languages. Through engaging and accessible studies, a diverse team of leading scholars provide fascinating insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them, and into a dazzling variety of the literate cultures of humankind.
Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely
Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely - 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 Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely write by Robin Devoe. This book was released on 2017-03-12. Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dictionary of English's 3500 most interesting and/or beautiful words. Many are obscure words -- this book is not useful for foreigners learning English, but best enjoyed by fluent or native speakers. A book for word-lovers who enjoy learning and appreciating more of the English language. Includes some poetical quotes showing usage and select etymologies.
