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Anniversary essays on Johnson's dictionary

2006; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 43; Issue: 07 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.43-3876

1943-5975

Jack Lynch, Anne McDermott, Paul J. Korshin, Ian Lancashire, Howard D. Weinbrot, Nicholas Hudson, Robert DeMaria, Geoff Barnbrook, John F. Stone, N. E. Osselton, Paul Luna, Catherine Dille, Allen Reddick, R. Carter Hailey,

Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

List of illustrations List of contributors List of abbreviations and cue-titles Introduction Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott 1. The mythology of Johnson's Dictionary Paul J. Korshin 2. Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson Ian Lancashire 3. What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate: language and viewpoint in the Dictionary Howard D. Weinbrot 4. Reassessing the political context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the 'Broad-bottom' opposition Nicholas Hudson 5. Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language Robert DeMaria Jr 6. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the prosecution Geoff Barnbrook 7. Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the defense Anne McDermott 8. Johnson's encyclopedia Jack Lynch 9. The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson John Stone 10. Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's Dictionary Noel E. Osselton 11. The typographic design of Johnson's Dictionary Paul Luna 12. The Dictionary in abstract: Johnson's abridgements of the Dictionary of the English Language for the common reader Catherine Dille 13. Revision and the limits of collaboration: hands and texts in Johnson's Dictionary Allen Reddick 14. Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's Dictionary R. Carter Hailey General index Index of Dictionary entries.